Scope
The aim of the journal is to offer the community pharmacist useful information to support the pharmaceutical practice of community pharmacy professional services. It also aims to stimulated and facilitate the dissemination of research results in the scope of community pharmacy, bring community pharmacists closer to professional topics of interest, as well as offering results from studies performed or from community pharmacy.
FARMACÉUTICOS COMUNITARIOS is targeted mainly at community pharmacy professionals and authors of studies from all those interdisciplinary topics related to this same field; and given its open access model, there is no limitation on the Internet. Publication in English of many of its papers facilitates access to interested people from the global scientific community.
Scope
Community pharmacy forms part of primary care in Spain. It often comprises the first point of contact with health system structures. It is therefore a cornerstone of the chain of care for citizens’ health in which it is perfectly superimposed because of the broad network of existing pharmacies and its immediate accessibility by end users.
Within the biomedical sciences, research in the field of pharmacology, pharmacotherapy, use of medicines by patients and their outcomes in the resolution or improvement of their diseases and health problems takes on a fundamental importance to evaluate the effectiveness, safety and efficiency of the therapeutic means made accessible to users. The journal FARMACÉUTICOS COMUNITARIOS was created for this purpose.
From the outset, it is the first Spanish publication of original papers and review papers to collect and disseminate scientific production from studies performed in or from community pharmacies in the field of pharmacotherapy and its outcomes on the health and wellbeing of patients as well as pharmaceutical professional services. The journal also accepts multidisciplinary works from other fields of pharmacy or other health professionals, which provide knowledge, experiences or novelties in the field of pharmacy and pharmacotherapy in terms of the relationship with the community pharmacy. FARMACÉUTICOS COMUNITARIOS is the journal specialized in community pharmacy, a health sector with a major lack of scientific journals.
The authors are mostly pharmacists who practice their profession in community pharmacy, although there are 30% of authors from other fields and qualifications. Most are Spanish, but there are also international authors. The journal publishes mainly original research papers in or from community pharmacy. Case studies, reviews, collaborations and consensuses are also published.
Sponsoring Association(s)
Spanish Society of Family and Community Pharmacy (Sociedad Española de Farmacia Familiar y Comunitaria) (SEFAC)