RSAP Journal

Please welcome our newest Associate Editor, Dr. Tanja Mueller, from U. of Strathclyde, who has been a Top Reviewer several times for both ERCSP and RSAP, in addition to being a terrific scholar in her own right. Welcome, Dr. Mueller!

Contextualized Deprescribing (CoDe), which embeds electronic prompts and care pathways; and Ethical Therapeutic Insight for Compassionate Communication (ETHIC-Talk) could provide a structured, to deprescribing in hospice care. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A national register study found high-risk OTC meds contributed to > half of incidents when customers selected meds but low risk when pharmacists did. Pharmacists’ med counseling the most important factor preventing self-med errors from reaching customers. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A time-and-motion study IDs a scalable and equitable payment model for community-pharmacy–based long-acting injectable behavioral health med administration & pt mgm in collaboration with psychiatrists. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to our 2025 Best Paper authors, Syafiqah Halimi, Debra Rowett, & Karen Luetsch, "A realist review of programs fostering the resilience of healthcare students: What works, for whom and why?" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to ERCSP's 2025 Best Paper Award authors, Tamasine Grimes and Grainne Kirwan, for their paper, "The impact of collaborative pharmaceutical care on hospital discharge medication error prevalence: A stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial!!! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Motivation-based counseling resulted in improved adherence to statin therapy even one year later. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This systematic review evaluated methods used to classify med-related hospital admissions, summarise the tools employed, and assess their usability in clinical settings. It found the AT-HARM10 tool greatest in validity and ease of use in practice. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to our Top Reviewers of 2025! facebook.com/permalink.php?…

OTC supply of a-bics in Ghana [and elsewhere] fueled by various factors (eg, online info sales targets, social status of consumers, level of urbanization and development). Policymakers must adopt community-tailored strategies that target medicine retailers.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Health Belief Model informed a survey that found knowledge, perceptions, and non-medical stimulant use intentions differing across age, sex, race, and urbanicity. Future studies should explore strategies to overcome these disparities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This study of two homeless service agencies examined med adherence issues. HCPs can consider tailoring med adherence counseling to focus on strategies to mitigate psychological distress and medication affordability challenges among this population. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This commentary discusses the need to more carefully consider organizational culture in the midst of implementation research, especially use of multidimensional measures of culture. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A systematic review shows pharmacists' in colorectal cancer screening to be highly valuable across varied countries and healthcare systems, especially when appropriately recognized, supported, and remunerated. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…