QUALITY OF PHARMACEUTICAL CARE AT THE STAGE OF PATIENTS' NEEDS IDENTIFICATION UNDER CONDITIONS OF COMMUNITY PHARMACIES AS A TRANSBORDER PROBLEM.

The results of the study of the real pharmaceutical practice in relation to the patient's needs identification defined that the problem of not always high pharmaceutical care quality at this stage is equally up-to-date for the community pharmacies of Lviv (Ukraine) and Lublin (Poland). It was found that the quantity and amount of questions set by a pharmacist are not related to the conversation duration with a pharmacy visitor, and the communication duration does not have the statistically confirmed dependence on the queue availability, therefore in the context of pharmaceutical care quality, these criteria are of no high importance. Instead, drug-related problems (n = 209) verified by the authors of this article,tthat have been distributed into the groups according to the criterion of the information amount received by a pharmacist studying the needs of the patient (visitor of a pharmacy), were determined as a quantitative indicator of potential pharmaceutical care quality increase.