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IJPP contents A new issue of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice (volume 7, number 3) has been published. The issue contains the following papers:
- Reassessing the MAI: elderly people's opinions about medication appropriateness (C. I. Volume, L. M. Burback and K. B. Farris)
- Counselling women about periconceptional use of folic acid: the role of the community pharmacist can be improved (L. T. W. de Jong-van den Berg, A. H. van der Zee, E. Schaafsma, D. de Smit, C. Anderson and M. C. Cornel)
- Assessing pharmaceutical services at primary care clinics in KwaZulu-Natal: an indicator-based approach (A. Kishuna and J. Smit)
- Exploring community pharmacists' perceptions of their professional relationships with physicians, in Canada and the Netherlands (R. N. Reebye, A. J. Avery, W. J. H. M. van den Bosch, M. Aslam, A. Nijholt and A. van der Bij)
- Cross-sectoral pharmacotherapeutic coherence in the Netherlands (R. Fijn, J. R. B. J. Brouwers and L. T. W. de Jong-van den Berg)
- A survey of adverse drug reaction reporting by hospital pharmacists to the Committee on Safety of Medicines - the role of pharmacy departments (M. Ferguson and S. Dhillon)
- The demographics of pharmacy's clientele - a descriptive study of the British general public (M. P. Tully and B. Temple)
- The impact of professional socialisation on pharmacy students' role perceptions (D. M. Collins, H. A. E. Benson, S. Occhipinti, A. Wright and J. C. McElnay)
- Patient awareness of the adverse effects of aspirin and non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (H. A. Wynne and M. Dorward)
- Analysis of data from focus groups: Group interaction - the added dimension (F. Smith)
The IJPP is available through the Pharmaceutical Press.