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Exploring the training of pharmacists oriented to the demands for clinical pharmacy services: from the perspective of physicians

BACKGROUND: To evaluate physicians’ perceptions, experiences and expectations of clinical pharmacists in China from the perspective of physicians’ demands, to improve the training of pharmacists. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey involving physicians (except for primary physicians) was conducted fro...

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Autores principales: Jin, Hang, Huang, Yuankai, Xi, Xiaoyu, Chen, Lei
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10201797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37217963
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04353-7
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description BACKGROUND: To evaluate physicians’ perceptions, experiences and expectations of clinical pharmacists in China from the perspective of physicians’ demands, to improve the training of pharmacists. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey involving physicians (except for primary physicians) was conducted from July to August 2019 in China. Using a field questionnaire, this study gathered data on descriptive information about the respondents and their perceptions, experiences and expectations of clinical pharmacists. Data were analysed descriptively using frequencies, percentages and mean. Several subgroup analyses using Chi-square tests were conducted to identify physicians’ demands for clinical pharmacists in China. RESULTS: A total of 1376 physicians from secondary and tertiary hospitals in China (response rate = 92%) participated. The majority of the respondents were comfortable with clinical pharmacists providing education to patients (59.09%) and detecting and preventing prescription errors (60.17%), but they appeared uncomfortable when asked about clinical pharmacists suggesting the use of prescription medications to patients (15.71%). Most respondents agreed that clinical pharmacists are a reliable source of general drug information (81.84%) instead of clinical drug information (79.58%). The majority of the respondents expected clinical pharmacists to be knowledgeable drug therapy experts (95.56%) and to educate their patients about the safe and appropriate use of medications (95.56%). CONCLUSION: Physicians’ perceptions and experiences were positively associated with the frequency of their interaction with clinical pharmacists. They had high expectations of clinical pharmacists as knowledgeable drug therapy experts. Corresponding policies and measures are needed to improve the education and training system of clinical pharmacists in China. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04353-7.
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spelling pubmed-102017972023-05-23 Exploring the training of pharmacists oriented to the demands for clinical pharmacy services: from the perspective of physicians Jin, Hang Huang, Yuankai Xi, Xiaoyu Chen, Lei BMC Med Educ Research BACKGROUND: To evaluate physicians’ perceptions, experiences and expectations of clinical pharmacists in China from the perspective of physicians’ demands, to improve the training of pharmacists. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey involving physicians (except for primary physicians) was conducted from July to August 2019 in China. Using a field questionnaire, this study gathered data on descriptive information about the respondents and their perceptions, experiences and expectations of clinical pharmacists. Data were analysed descriptively using frequencies, percentages and mean. Several subgroup analyses using Chi-square tests were conducted to identify physicians’ demands for clinical pharmacists in China. RESULTS: A total of 1376 physicians from secondary and tertiary hospitals in China (response rate = 92%) participated. The majority of the respondents were comfortable with clinical pharmacists providing education to patients (59.09%) and detecting and preventing prescription errors (60.17%), but they appeared uncomfortable when asked about clinical pharmacists suggesting the use of prescription medications to patients (15.71%). Most respondents agreed that clinical pharmacists are a reliable source of general drug information (81.84%) instead of clinical drug information (79.58%). The majority of the respondents expected clinical pharmacists to be knowledgeable drug therapy experts (95.56%) and to educate their patients about the safe and appropriate use of medications (95.56%). CONCLUSION: Physicians’ perceptions and experiences were positively associated with the frequency of their interaction with clinical pharmacists. They had high expectations of clinical pharmacists as knowledgeable drug therapy experts. Corresponding policies and measures are needed to improve the education and training system of clinical pharmacists in China. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04353-7. BioMed Central 2023-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10201797/ /pubmed/37217963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04353-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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