Role of community pharmacists in the safe and effective use of complementary and alternative medicine in the Middle East: A scoping review

• Farah Naja,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Research Institute of Medical & Health Sciences (RIMHS), University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Maiss Ahmad,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Applied Health Sciences, Public Health Programme, University of Birmingham Dubai, International Academic City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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• Hibeh Shatila,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Human Nutrition Department, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Katia Hazim N. Abu Shihab,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Research Institute of Medical & Health Sciences (RIMHS), University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Sally Naalbandian,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Science & Agriculture Library, University Libraries, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0018-6151

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• Roba Saqan,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Research Institute of Medical & Health Sciences (RIMHS), University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Hamzah Alzubaidi,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliations Research Institute of Medical & Health Sciences (RIMHS), University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacotherapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Mohamad Ali Hijazi

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: m.hijazi@bau.edu.lb

  Affiliation Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9829-235X

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