6ER-022 What is pharmacovigilance for you? A survey of 153 pharmacists

Abstract

national health authorities and several laws govern this notion since the beginning of the 2000s. In our hospital, 34 patient education programmes exist but only five integrate a pharmacist into their team. Purpose The main objective of this qualitative research is to understand why pharmacists are so few in patient education teams by studying the perception of other health professionals on the work of pharmacists. Then, we could propose several solutions to make easier the integration of pharmacists into these multidisciplinary healthcare teams. Material and methods Semi-structured interviews were planned with the healthcare professionals involved in the educational teams where there are no pharmacists. After a word-by-word anonymous transcription, verbatims were coded in the software Nvivo 12 (QSR International; Melbourne, Australia) by two pharmacists trained in qualitative research in order to minimise the subjectivity of this work. Results Fourteen healthcare professionals had been interviewed: six nurses (among whom three executive nurses), four physicians, two psychologists, one dentist and one clinical research associate. These persons represented 11 of the 34 educational programmes. The results showed that the pharmacist was not considered as a part of the healthcare team. Moreover, the pharmacy profession was not well known by others healthcare professionals, which was why patient education was not known as a pharmaceutical mission. The added-value of the pharmacist was contentious (pharmaceutical expertise was recognized but pharmacists had a lack of knowledge of the reallife experience of the disease according to the interviewed). Respondents also mentioned organisational factors such as lack of time and funds. Conclusion All these elements of the response could be used in the aim to make it easier for pharmacists' integration into the educational teams and enhance their multidisciplinary nature. This work allowed reflection with the educational teams, which is essential to the integration. In the team interviewed, there is still no clinical pharmacist and we hope that development of clinical pharmacy could change these representations. Furthermore, it would be interesting to compare our results with the perceptions of European or international health professionals on the role of pharmacists in educational teams.

Spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions: nurses’ perception

“…The main objective of this system is to promote the reporting of adverse reactions [13]. Despite efforts made, a study investigating the perception of health professionals towards pharmacovigilance in Morocco showed a negative perception [14]. Another prospective analytical study conducted in Casablanca showed that only 11.5% of participants had ever reported an adverse drug reaction, indicating the need for more efforts to encourage health professionals to be more involved in the reporting process [15].…”