Scoping review maps evidence on guidelines for medicine dispensing, improving quality in community pharmacies.
Objective This scoping review aims to map and analyze evidence related to the development of guidelines applied to medicine-dispensing services. Introduction Guidelines and protocols are documents that guide and standardize work processes. Their development for application in medicine dispensing contributes to quality and safety in service delivery to patients, which is essential for Pharmaceutical Care to improve individual and collective health outcomes. The field of this scoping review is Primary Health Care, encompassing community (outpatient) pharmacies in both public and private sectors. Eligibility criteria Documents addressing guidelines or protocols to guide medicine-dispensing services, performed by pharmacists, within Primary Health Care and community pharmacies will be included. Methods This review will follow the JBI Manual for Scoping Reviews. Documents will be searched in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and SciELO databases. Grey literature will be reviewed based on a predefined list of databases and websites related to the study topic. Study selection and data extraction will be conducted by two independent reviewers. Documents published in any language will be considered, with no restriction on publication date. Data of interest will be presented graphically along with a narrative summary.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Reser et al. (2026) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: