Deontological violations of community pharmacies in Turkey

Year 2019, Volume: 49 Issue: 1, 20 - 24, 02.05.2019

Bülent Kıran Elif Gizem Karaca

Abstract

DOI: 10.26650/IstanbulJPharm.2019.18009

Deontological violations are important in
terms of reputation of public health, pharmacy profession, and protection of
public finance. The aim of this study is to determine types and prevalence of
deontological crimes reflected in records of High Honor Court (HHC) in Turkish
Pharmacists’ Association (TPA), to develop proposals on corrective and
preventive occupational policies. Crime types in disciplinary files were
classified according to classification method of deontological crimes in
3-groups, and results were evaluated by frequency and percentage distributions.

In the study, 32 deontological crime types
and 112 criminal cases were detected. Accordingly, it was found that
deontological crimes due to competition are in the first rank with 51 cases,
TPA, Drug-Pharmacy Legislation violations in the second with 50 cases and
Social Security Institution protocol provisions violations in the last rank
with 11 cases, and in all types of crime, “collusion” is in the first rank
(30.4%).It is thought that “collusion” crime being in the first rank increasing
its share from 18.6% to 30.4% in all crimes despite increasing punishments.

Persistence of crime despite punitive
sanctions aggravated by recent regulations suggests that it is not possible to
solve only by punitive sanctions, and it must be get to the bottom of the
problem.

Cite this article as: Kıran B, Karaca EG
(2019). Deontological violations of community pharmacies in Turkey. Istanbul J
Pharm 49 (1): 20-24.

Keywords

Pharmacy, community pharmacies, deontological violations, deontological crimes

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