Perceived value of ward-based pharmacists from the perspective of physicians and nurses

Abstract

The majority of the respondents, both GPs and hospital based physicians and nurses, were satisfied with the new collaboration with the ward based pharmacists and perceived that the quality of the patients' drug therapy and drug-related patient safety had increased.

Attitudes of physicians, nurses and pharmacists concerning the development of clinical pharmacy activities in a university hospital

“…A plethora of research work has been done in order to evaluate the clinical pharmacy services after their introduction (2,3,5,6,(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17). In contrast, studies exploring the stakeholders' needs, expectations, and perceptions of clinical pharmacy services before their introduction are very rare.…”

“…Dussart et al (15) investigated satisfaction with only one particular pharmacist's service, i.e., individualized dispensing system. Gillespie et al (11) conducted three different surveys, each designed for one profession only. Compared to the existing research, the added value of our research is that the survey was conducted before the clinical pharmacy service was introduced, it included the vast majority of all clinical pharmacy activities and the same questionnarie was used for all three professional groups.…”

An Experience Feedback Committee for Improving Medication Process Safety: An Observational Study in a Hospital Pharmacy Department

“…This included a median of 3 pharmacists [IQR, [3][4] for a median of 1.5 technicians [IQR, 1-2] per meeting. A total of 320 events concerning the pharmacy activities were examined by the EFC with a median of 13 events [IQR, [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] per meeting. Events were exclusively (100%) reported by one of the department's professionals.…”

“…Each part of the medication process (prescription, transcription, dispensing, administration and monitoring) has been targeted in order to prevent ADEs and potential ADEs and thus improve patient safety. To address each part of the process, several methods have been suggested and carried out such as computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE), decision support with CPOE and clinical pharmacists (for the prescription and transcription parts), bar code technology and automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) (for the dispensing part) [6][7][8][9][10][11].…”

Assessment of surveys for the management of hospital clinical pharmacy services

“…Different approaches have been studied to improve this collaboration, among which satisfaction is of particular interest [11][12][13][14][15].…”