Abstract

Currently, the assortment of medicines presented in pharmacy, often solves the problem of getting the highest yield from the sale and doesn't always match the criterions of rational choice. However, in conditions of decline of access to health care and the need to build the system of rational use of medicines at all stages of medical and pharmaceutical care, according to the Strategy of the supply of medicines of the population until 2025, it is necessary to form the system also outpatient treatment, which depends on the level of competences and knowledge of medical and pharmaceutical specialists, and the assortment of medicines presented in the pharmacy. With the aim of developing approaches to forming the assortment of medicines in pharmacy, consistent with the principles of rational use of medicines, we studied the opinions of visitors of pharmacy about the choice of medicines (selection criteria, the credibility to the specialists, the possession of definitions about the characteristics and properties of medicines, etc.), the results of which are presented in the article.

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