Ahsan Saleem

• PharmD, PhD
• Research Fellow at Monash University (Australia)

Introduction Older adults continue to receive potentially inappropriate medications necessitating the need for medication optimization, by deprescribing. To ensure a holistic approach to deprescribing, it is essential to understand the perception of older adults towards deprescribing. This study aimed to assess the attitude of older ambulatory pati...

Objective This study aims to implement a version of patient-centred labels (PCL) consistent with current labelling practice in Australia; assess the effectiveness of PCL in relation to the proportion of participants that correctly comprehend dosing instructions, and explore the proportion of correct comprehension of PCL in participants with both lo...

Objectives Pain, a complex subjective experience, is common in care home residents. Despite advances in pain management, optimal pain control remains a challenge. In this updated systematic review, we examined effectiveness of interventions for treating chronic pain in care home residents. Design A Cochrane-style systematic review and meta-analysi...

Objectives: Researchers face numerous challenges when recruiting participants for health and social care research. This study reports on the challenges faced recruiting older adults for Being Your Best, a co-designed holistic intervention to manage and reduce frailty, and highlights lessons learnt amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: A qualitativ...

Issue Addressed Pakistani migrants are one of the fastest-growing culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia, but there is currently a lack of information regarding their health literacy. This study aimed to investigate the health literacy of Pakistani migrants residing in Australia. Methods Using a cross-sectional study...

Pain is endemic for residents of long-term care homes, with many residents experiencing pain daily. Given that healthcare aides provide most daily care for residents, they are ideally situated to deliver timely assessment and non-drug interventions for managing resident pain. In this Cochrane-style systematic review, we searched 7 databases to iden...

Pakistani migrants are one of the fastest-growing communities in Australia, and the majority speak Urdu at home. There is a lack of information regarding the health literacy of this population. This study aimed to translate the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) into Urdu and to explore its psychometric properties. A structured standardized proced...

***READ THIS ARTICLE VIA THIS LINK https://rdcu.be/bcaGi *** Migration, as a global phenomenon, gives rise to many challenges for healthcare professionals providing care to migrant populations. Migrants originating from diverse cultural backgrounds have unique beliefs and healthcare needs, and their utilisation of healthcare services and medicines...

Background The model of community pharmacy practice is changing remarkably not only in the West but also in developing countries, which has led retail pharmacies to transform into chain community pharmacies. However, very little is known about consumers’ expectations and experiences with chain community pharmacies in developing countries. Objective...

Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) alters the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic responses of various renally excreted drugs and increases the risk of drug-related problems, such as drug–drug interactions. Objectives To assess the pattern, determinants, and clinical relevancy of potential drug–drug interactions (pDDIs) in CKD patients. Mate...

The study was aimed to assess breast cancer awareness among females in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. We performed a quantitative cross sectional study from January to April 2015. We enrolled adult women over the age of 18. Trained researchers conducted the interviews in-person. We used SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) version 15 to perfor...

This cross sectional study was conducted to assess insulin perception among insulin naïve type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients who attended an outpatient department in a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan. A total of 160 T2DM patients participated in the study, whereby the majority (64.4%) were females, nearly 50% were jobless and 20% were doin...

Generic medicines are recommended and used largely due to their cost effectiveness. Still, physicians prefer brand medicines rather than their generic counterparts. Therefore, the current research was aimed to evaluate the preferential attitude of physicians towards brand medicines over generic medicines in Pakistan. This is a cross-sectional surve...

Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) alters the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic response of various drugs and increases the risk of toxicity. The data regarding the pattern and predictors of medication dosing errors is scare from the developing countries. Therefore, the present study was conducted to assess the pattern and predictors of medi...

This cross-sectional study comprises a questionnaire-based survey regarding knowledge about human papillomavirus and its vaccine among students in different educational fields at public and private universities in the city of Lahore in Pakistan. A 26-item questionnaire was used to attain the objective of this study. The reliability of this tool was...

I read with great interest the letter to editor by Saeed Ahmad Khan et al,1 wherein he appraised the importance of community pharmacy for pharmacists in Pakistan. Community pharmacists are an integral component of patient care, as they deal directly deal with the public. However, severe lack of motivation is observed in Pakistani pharmacists in acc...

AIMS: To evaluate diabetes awareness among general population of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. METHODS: A questionnaire based descriptive cross sectional study was performed during 2014. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied using the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 20. RESULTS: Total 383 respondents participated in this s...