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WHY Ø Could help Community
MNEMONICS?? pharmacy performance
when dealing with patients’
signs and symptoms ?
Ø Could help in diagnosis by
community pharmacists??
Ø THEY R Selected SelfCare
Problem Solving Formats
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• Who is the patient? Positive points
• Establishes presenting complaint
• What are the symptoms? • basic information- gathering tool.
• How long have the symptoms been present? Negative points
• Action taken, medicines tried? • Fails to consider general appearance
• Medicines taken for other conditions? of patient. (not help diagnosis)
• No social/lifestyle factors taken into
account;
• no family history sought;
• not specific or in-depth enough;
• no history of previous symptoms
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