title: Telematics applications to support the role of the community pharmacists as self-medication advisors. TESEMED Consortium.
abstract: One of the applications developed within the EU-funded projects TESEMED and TESEMED-II is a program for the information and continuous training of community pharmacists, with the aim to empower them as advisors of the citizens about self-medication topics. Several programs are being developed on the basis of ad-hoc developed protocols about minor ailments (currently, cold and flu, haemorrhoids, constipation and cough). Each program includes three modules: a hypertextual version of the protocol, an interactive scheme of it, and an educational tool called Encounter Simulator, that trains the pharmacist about the protocol by means of simulated pharmacist-customer interactions. The testing of these applications with 84 community pharmacists offers positive results in terms of expectations, program characteristics and perceived usefulness.
authors.affiliation: R.G. on Medical Informatics, IMIM/UPF, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sanz
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Silveira
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alonso
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Diaz
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Loza
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cordero
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fernandez-Llimós
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tiddens
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Giorgio
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cranz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mircheva
mesh_terms: D003139:Common Cold / Q000188:drug therapy; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004346:Drug Information Services; D005062:European Union; D006801:Humans; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000188:drug therapy; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D010595:Pharmacists; D012651:Self Medication; D012984:Software