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Published Online, 28 March 2006, www.theannals.com, DOI 10.1345/aph.1G458.
 The Annals of Pharmacotherapy: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 729-735. DOI 10.1345/aph.1G458
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Pharmaceutical Care in Community Pharmacies: Practice and Research in Germany

Christiane Eickhoff, PhD

Research Associate, Center for Drug Information and Pharmacy Practice, ABDA—Federal Union of German Associations of Pharmacists, Berlin, Germany

Martin Schulz, PhD

Head, Center for Drug Information and Pharmacy Practice, ABDA; Adjunct Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt at Main, Germany

Reprints: Dr. Schulz, Center for Drug Information and Pharmacy Practice, ABDA, Jaegerstrasse 49/50, 10117 Berlin, Germany, fax 49 30 40004 243, m.schulz{at}abda.aponet.de

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To discuss the provision of pharmaceutical care in community pharmacies in Germany including community pharmacy, organization and delivery of health services, pharmacy education, community pharmacy services, research in community pharmacy, and future plans for community pharmacy services.

FINDINGS: In Germany, cognitive pharmaceutical services have been developed for more than 12 years. Several studies and programs have shown that pharmaceutical care and other pharmaceutical services are feasible in community pharmacy practice and that patients benefit from these services. In 2003, a nationwide contract was established between representatives of the community pharmacy owners and the largest German health insurance fund. In this so-called family pharmacy contract, remuneration of pharmacists for provision of pharmaceutical care services was successfully negotiated for the first time. In 2004, a trilateral integrated care contract was signed that additionally included general practitioners, combining the family pharmacy with the family physician. Within a few months, the vast majority (>17 000) of community pharmacies have registered to participate in this program.

CONCLUSIONS: German community pharmacies are moving from the image of mainly supplying drugs toward the provision of cognitive pharmaceutical services.

Key Words: community pharmacy services, Germany, health services, pharmaceutical care, pharmacy practice

Published Online, March 28, 2006. www.theannals.com, DOI 10.1345/aph.1G458


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