, BComm(Hons), BSc(Pharm), ACPR, was, at the time of writing, a Pharmacy Practice Resident with Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services. He is now a Clinical Pharmacist with Vancouver General Hospital, Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services, Vancouver, British Columbia.
, BSc(Pharm), PharmD, ACPR, FCSHP, is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
, BPharm(Hons), MSc, was, at the time of writing, a Master of Science student in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. She has since graduated and is now a Doctor of Philosophy student in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of British Columbia.
Despite the usefulness of assertiveness by healthcare professionals in improving patient safety, few studies have evaluated the assertiveness of community pharmacists. Community pharmacists' assertive...
Our objective was to examine which types of assertiveness-related self-expression are associated with community pharmacist-initiated prescribing changes while adjusting for possible confounding factor...
We conducted a cross-sectional survey in Japan between May and October 2022 in 10 prefectures. Community pharmacists belonging to a large pharmacy chain were recruited. The outcome variable was the fr...
Of 3346 community pharmacists invited, 963 were included in the analysis. Participants with high assertive self-expression scores had a significantly higher frequency of pharmacist-initiated prescript...
Higher assertive self-expression among community pharmacists is associated with higher frequency of pharmacist-initiated prescription changes....
Practice-based pharmacists (PBPs) have been introduced into general practice across the UK to relieve some of the pressures within primary care. However, there is little existing UK literature that ha...
To explore the views and experiences of GPs, PBPs, and community pharmacists (CPs) about PBPs' integration into general practice and their impact on primary healthcare delivery....
A qualitative interview study in primary care in Northern Ireland....
Purposive and snowball sampling were used to recruit triads (a GP, a PBP, and a CP) from across five administrative healthcare areas in Northern Ireland. Sampling of practices to recruit GPs and PBPs ...
Eleven triads were recruited from across the five administrative areas. Four main themes in relation to PBPs' integration into general practices were revealed: evolution of the role; PBP attributes; c...
Participants reported that PBPs had integrated well and perceived a positive impact on primary healthcare delivery. Further work is needed to increase patient awareness of the PBP role....
This study aimed to explore pharmacists' counseling for dementia by developing a measurement tool based on the Theory of Planned Behavior....
A survey was applied online to community pharmacists; in total, 190 community pharmacists participated in the study. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and Mann-Whi...
A six-factor structure was obtained from the EFA, and the CFA confirmed the structure. These factors explained 71.294% of the total variance. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the factors ranged f...
The developed measurement tool had a satisfactory construct and convergent and discriminant validities and reliabilities....
The developed measurement tool can be used to investigate pharmacists' self-reported counseling for dementia and can also be applied to the counseling behavior of pharmacists in various health conditi...
Countries are grappling with a rapidly worsening upsurge in the opioid-related overdose deaths, misuse and abuse. There is a dearth of data in Pakistan regarding the practices and competencies of phar...
A cross-sectional study, conducted across Punjab, Pakistan....
The study deployed a validated survey to evaluate the competencies and practices of the community and hospital pharmacists....
504 community pharmacists and 279 hospital pharmacists participated in the survey with an overall response rate of 85.5%. Almost half of the respondents 'never' or 'sometimes' made clinical notes in a...
Both community and hospital pharmacists hold significant positions and potential to contribute meaningfully to the mitigation of harms and risks associated with opioids. Nevertheless, this study under...
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the pharmacist's role, patient understanding and satisfaction during the provision of a cost-effective pharmacist-led intervention using struct...
A validated questionnaire was used to gather patient views on a pharmacist-led intervention. A conceptual model was developed to test the statistical significance of the relationship between patient u...
Two hundred and forty-six patients returned the questionnaire. Construct reliability, validity (Cronbach's alpha〉0.70, ⍴A>0.70, ⍴C>0.70), average extracted variance (AVE〉0.50) and discriminant validit...
Patient satisfaction is becoming an integral component in healthcare provision and evaluation of healthcare quality. The results support using structural equation modelling to assess the link between ...
Medication non-adherence is currently estimated to have caused at least 100 000 preventable deaths and over $100 billion in preventable medical costs. Adherence is particularly poor in dermatological ...
Over the years, counterfeit pharmaceuticals have posed immense concerns for global health and patient safety. This menace encompasses various classes of medications. Given the criticality of pharmacis...
A cross-sectional study was undertaken, using questionnaires to collect data from pharmacists across various sectors of pharmacy practice in Nigeria. Face and content validity was undertaken on the st...
The responses comprised 205 (52.6%) female and 185 (47.4%) male participants. Almost all the participants (98.4%) agreed that strict enforcement of drug laws can contribute to adequate control of coun...
Findings from this study, in addition to confirming pharmacists' instrumentality in the fight against counterfeit medicines, identified certain context specific factors that can strengthen the regulat...
Clearly understanding and describing professional behaviours of pharmacists allows the profession, researchers and policy-makers to observe and monitor the professionalism of pharmacists, and design i...
A scoping literature review was conducted....
An electronic database search of Scopus, Embase, PsycINFO, PsychArticles, Emcare and Medline limited to articles published in English from 1 January 2000 to 21 October 2022 was conducted....
Eligible articles contributed behaviourally relevant content with reference to registered pharmacists' professionalism....
Extracted behaviourally relevant content was subject to researcher's familiarisation, then deductive coding to one of two overarching definitions of technical or non-technical behaviour. Data were the...
Seven articles were identified and included in the final analysis. From the extracted behaviourally relevant content, 18 categories of behaviours were identified. All articles identified behaviours in...
Behaviours described to contribute to pharmacists' professionalism in the literature are broad and non-specific....
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence model trained for conversations. ChatGPT has been widely applied in general medical education and cardiology, but its application in pharmacy has been lacking. Th...
ChatGPT was used on the first Taiwanese Pharmacist Licensing Examination in 2023 in Mandarin and English. The questions were entered manually one by one. Graphical questions, chemical formulae, and ta...
The correct rate of ChatGPT in Chinese and English questions was 54.4% and 56.9% in the first stage, and 53.8% and 67.6% in the second stage. On the Chinese test, only pharmacology and pharmacochemist...
ChatGPT 3.5 failed the Taiwanese Pharmacist Licensing Examination. Although it is not able to pass the examination, it can be improved quickly through deep learning. It reminds us that we should not o...
The objectives of this study were to describe the implementation of a microaggression and gender inclusive communication (MGIC) module in a required course in a Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum; and to e...
Students participated in MGIC module, which included training on microaggressions, and terminology related to gender. The module implementation was evaluated through a pre and post training knowledge ...
A total of 106 students completed the module, 105 completed presurvey and knowledge assessment, and 92 completed the postsurvey and knowledge assessment. Results demonstrated a statistically significa...
The MGIC module was effective in increasing to evaluate the impact on student pharmacist knowledge, comfort, and confidence using gender inclusive communication and addressing microaggressions. Reflec...
