The Pharmaceutical Care in Asthma—Polish and Global Perspective

Świeczkowski, Damian; Poniatowski, Patryk; Merks, Piotr; Jaguszewski, Miłosz

doi:10.5603/piap.2016.0028

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“…The need for PC implementation in Poland has been previously noted by other Polish researchers [ 10 , 11 , 17 , 18 ], and by the National Section of Pharmaceutical Care of the Polish Pharmaceutical Society which presented their own proposal of state-of-the-art pharmaceutical care development in Poland in 2016 [ 19 ] addressing the areas for improvement and issues limiting provision of PC in Poland in detail.…”

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A survey of pharmacists' knowledge, attitudes and barriers in pharmaceutical care concept in Poland

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Background The major goals of pharmaceutical care (PC) are to improve the patient’s quality of life and ensure safety of pharmacotherapy. Inclusion of a pharmacist in the multidisciplinary team caring for the patient and integration of state-of-the-art pharmaceutical services with medical care and nursing are some of the most important challenges that the health care system in Poland is facing. Objectives To evaluate the pharmacists attitudes towards practice in, and knowledge of PC in Poland and to identify the barriers in PC provision. Methods The study was designed as a multicenter study, conducted among Polish pharmacists. Random sampling technique was employed to select the study group. Face-to-face questionnaire method was used to interview the pharmacists, upon obtaining their prior verbal consent to participate in the study. The study was conducted between January 2017 and September 2019. Results Only 15% of the pharmacists have ever attended a training on PC. 72% believed PC provision was necessary to ensure pharmacotherapy safety. Only 63% of the pharmacists believed that preventing and solving health-related and drug therapy problems for patients were their responsibilities. The main reason for non-provision of PC by the pharmacists was the lack of time for such activities, lack of legal regulations, lack of organizational facilities. Conclusion This study indicates that implementation of PC is expected in Poland. Educational programs in this respect are urgently needed. PC provision should be included in the curricula of academic pharmaceutical courses.

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A survey of pharmacists' knowledge, attitudes and barriers in pharmaceutical care concept in Poland

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“…Based on the specific disease treated and the work experience of the clinical pharmacist, the key content of pharmaceutical care varies, such as focusing on the medication education of inhalersfor asthma patients. 15 For patients taking multiple drugs, medication compliance, drug interactions, and adverse reactions should be emphasised. 16–18 Since the pharmaceutical management committee of the China Hospital Association only set up the training of clinical pharmacists in obstetrics and gynaecology in 2015, the training of clinical pharmacists in obstetrics and gynaecology started late, and the practice of pharmaceutical care in this area was rarely reported.…”

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Clinical practice and teaching of pharmaceutical care procedures for obstetric diseases

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Objectives Our goal was to explore the pharmaceutical service and teaching methods of obstetric clinical pharmacists to establish standardised pharmaceutical care procedures for obstetric diseases. Methods According to the evidence-based medicine method, the “Standard of Pharmaceutical Care” was established to standardise the procedure and content of the pharmaceutical care procedure including preface, purpose, scope of application, responsibilities, procedures, references, and appendix, with seven parts in total. The object of the pharmaceutical care procedure was selected by the harmfulness of the disease and the drugs used. The clinical pharmacists in obstetrics formulated the pharmaceutical care procedure for each disease according to the standard and carried out clinical practice and teaching. A retrospective study was conducted to investigate the impact of the pharmaceutical care procedure before and after its implementation on both clinical practice and training. Obstetric pharmaceutical consultation and adverse reaction were the key indicators for clinical practice. The graduation assessment for students was strictly carried out in accordance with the regulations of the Chinese Hospital Association Pharmaceutical Affairs Professional Committee including communication and consultation capacity interview, case assessment, and training procedure assessment. Results We established the standards for the pharmaceutical care procedures for three diseases: pregnancy with diabetes; pregnancy with thyroid disease; and pregnancy with hypertensive disorder. The clinical pharmacist conducted the pharmaceutical care procedure, participated in drug treatment management, and improved the recognition of the role of clinical pharmacists by the obstetric clinicians, often inviting the clinical pharmacists to participate in the consultations. The clinical pharmacists discovered and addressed any adverse reactions in a timely manner through patient drug education, subsequently reducing the underreporting of adverse reactions and improving the patient's medication compliance, which aimed to improve the medical quality of patients in our hospital. Second, the use of the pharmaceutical care procedure as a teaching tool helped to train students to grasp the key points of drug treatment and care of the disease and improve the students' scores in the graduation assessment (P<0.05). Conclusions As a pharmacy service and teaching method that can be promoted and implemented, the pharmaceutical care procedure is beneficial for clinical pharmacists to carry out in-depth pharmaceutical services and can also be used as a teaching tool for clinical pharmacist training.

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“…For instance, the introduction of repeat dispensing as one of the new services to community pharmacies can limit the number of patient consultations aimed at receiving new prescriptions from GPs [ 16 ]. In this context, it is worth noting that the health care system in Poland faces some system problems such as long waiting lists to see a specialist or have surgery and a persistent shortage of doctors and nursing staff [ 17 ]. Following this, nurses and midwives have recently received permission to prescribe some medicines that previously only doctors were authorized to prescribe, while the pharmacists still do not have similar right [ 18 ].…”

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Development of Pharmacy Practice in European Countries—The Polish Perspective

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Polish pharmacy practice and the distribution of medicinal products in some European countries are still going through a significant transformation. Changes postulated by the pharmacists should strengthen their role, and the place of community pharmacies in the health care system in the context of—among others—the introduction and popularization of pharmaceutical care. Subsequently, these efforts may essentially ensure the professional independence of the pharmacists. The introduction of pharmaceutical care to the pharmacy practice in all European countries will help to improve the quality of patient care and treatment outcomes, and will lead to a better allocation of available resources. Herewith, we present an important voice in the international debate, showing the current changes in the pharmacy practice in Poland, a European Union (EU)-member from 2004. Indeed, this paper presents the perspective of the country in which the position of pharmaceutical care is not well-established, and the role of the pharmacist is still limited to dispensing medicinal products, more than decade after it joined EU.

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The Pharmaceutical Care in Asthma—Polish and Global Perspective

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A survey of pharmacists' knowledge, attitudes and barriers in pharmaceutical care concept in Poland

A survey of pharmacists' knowledge, attitudes and barriers in pharmaceutical care concept in Poland

Clinical practice and teaching of pharmaceutical care procedures for obstetric diseases

Development of Pharmacy Practice in European Countries—The Polish Perspective

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