Improving community pharmacists' clinical knowledge to detect and resolve drug-related problems in Croatia: a before/after survey study investigating the efficacy of an educational intervention.
education & training (see medical education & training)
primary care
therapeutics
Journal
BMJ open
ISSN: 2044-6055
Titre abrégé: BMJ Open
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101552874
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 06 2020
01 06 2020
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2020
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2021
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Résumé
The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge level of community pharmacists in Croatia to identify and resolve drug-related problems (DRPs). Before/after survey study. University of Split School of Medicine. 115 community pharmacists from all over the Croatia. An interactive 3-day clinical pharmacy workshop with the goal of increasing the knowledge level of community pharmacists in Croatia to identify and resolve DRPs in routine practice. Teaching methods were based on interactive clinical case solving. Change of the community pharmacists' knowledge based on preworkshop and postworkshop evaluation. A survey-based clinical knowledge measurement tool was used in order to evaluate the efficacy of the workshop. The lowest possible total score was 0 and the highest was 80. A higher survey score indicates a higher level of clinical knowledge to identify and resolve DRPs. Participating pharmacists had significantly higher postworkshop mean survey score (49.1±8.0) than the preworkshop mean survey score (42.9±8.2), with the mean score difference of 6.2 (95% CI 4.3 to 8.1). Furthermore, it was found that community pharmacists significantly increased their survey scores, regardless of their age. Interactive and case-based clinical pharmacy workshop could be a valuable tool to increase the knowledge of community pharmacists about identification and management of DRPs in routine practice. However, further studies are necessary to evaluate the long-term knowledge maintenance and the improvement in patients' clinical outcomes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32487573
pii: bmjopen-2019-034674
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034674
pmc: PMC7265009
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Substances chimiques
Pharmaceutical Preparations
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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e034674Informations de copyright
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: LZ is employed by Split-Dalmatia County Pharmacy and Arijana Mestrovic is employed by Pharmaexpert LLC.
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