PMID- 17152112
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070406
LR  - 20081121
IS  - 1053-8569 (Print)
IS  - 1053-8569 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 2
DP  - 2007 Feb
TI  - An assessment of the compliance with good pharmacy practice in an urban and rural 
      district in Sri Lanka.
PG  - 197-206
AB  - PURPOSE: To evaluate the compliance of private pharmacies to good pharmacy 
      practice (GPP) in an urban and rural district in Sri Lanka and identify 
      deficiencies with a view to improving supply of safe and effective drugs to 
      consumers. METHODS: Lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) method was used to 
      determine the number of pharmacies that need to be studied and the threshold 
      limit of defective elements. An inspection of 20 pharmacies in the urban and all 
      18 pharmacies in the rural district was carried out using a structured checklist. 
      Compliance to seven subsystems of GPP was studied. RESULTS: Storage of drugs, 
      maintenance of cold chain, dispensing and documentation were comprehensively 
      substandard in both districts. Individual items of supervision in registration, 
      physical environment and order of the pharmacy were also found to be substandard 
      in both districts. CONCLUSION: This study shows that the LQAS method can be used 
      to identify inadequate pharmacy services in the community as a whole. There was 
      poor compliance to GPP by the private pharmacies in both districts. There are 
      concerns about the quality of drugs and the safety of private pharmacy services 
      to the community. Some of the deficiencies could be easily corrected by educating 
      the pharmacists and authorised officers, and more effective and streamlined 
      supervision.
FAU - Wijesinghe, P R
AU  - Wijesinghe PR
AD  - Anti Leprosy Campaign, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka.
FAU - Jayakody, R L
AU  - Jayakody RL
FAU - De A Seneviratne, R
AU  - De A Seneviratne R
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
JT  - Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
JID - 9208369
SB  - IM
MH  - Clinical Competence/legislation & jurisprudence
MH  - Community Pharmacy Services/*legislation & jurisprudence/standards
MH  - Cooperative Behavior
MH  - Drug Prescriptions
MH  - Drug Storage
MH  - Facility Regulation and Control/legislation & jurisprudence
MH  - *Government Regulation
MH  - Guideline Adherence
MH  - Guidelines as Topic
MH  - Humans
MH  - Hygiene/legislation & jurisprudence
MH  - *Legislation, Pharmacy
MH  - Licensure, Pharmacy
MH  - Private Sector/legislation & jurisprudence
MH  - Quality Assurance, Health Care
MH  - Quality of Health Care/*legislation & jurisprudence/standards
MH  - Refrigeration
MH  - Rural Health Services/*legislation & jurisprudence/standards
MH  - Sampling Studies
MH  - Sri Lanka
MH  - Urban Health Services/*legislation & jurisprudence/standards
EDAT- 2006/12/08 09:00
MHDA- 2007/04/07 09:00
CRDT- 2006/12/08 09:00
PHST- 2006/12/08 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/04/07 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/12/08 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/pds.1277 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2007 Feb;16(2):197-206. doi: 10.1002/pds.1277.