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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

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge level of community pharmacists in Croatia to identify and resolve drug-related problems (DRPs). DESIGN: Before/after survey study. SETTING: University of Split School of Medicine. PARTICIPANTS: 115 community pharmacists from all over th...

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Autores principales: Zekan, Lovre, Mestrovic, Arijana, Perisin, Ana Seselja, Bukic, Josipa, Leskur, Dario, Rusic, Doris, Modun, Darko
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7265009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32487573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034674
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author Zekan, Lovre
Mestrovic, Arijana
Perisin, Ana Seselja
Bukic, Josipa
Leskur, Dario
Rusic, Doris
Modun, Darko
author_facet Zekan, Lovre
Mestrovic, Arijana
Perisin, Ana Seselja
Bukic, Josipa
Leskur, Dario
Rusic, Doris
Modun, Darko
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description OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge level of community pharmacists in Croatia to identify and resolve drug-related problems (DRPs). DESIGN: Before/after survey study. SETTING: University of Split School of Medicine. PARTICIPANTS: 115 community pharmacists from all over the Croatia. INTERVENTIONS: 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. OUTCOME MEASURE: 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. RESULTS: 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. CONCLUSIONS: 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.
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spelling pubmed-72650092020-06-12 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 Zekan, Lovre Mestrovic, Arijana Perisin, Ana Seselja Bukic, Josipa Leskur, Dario Rusic, Doris Modun, Darko BMJ Open Medical Education and Training OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge level of community pharmacists in Croatia to identify and resolve drug-related problems (DRPs). DESIGN: Before/after survey study. SETTING: University of Split School of Medicine. PARTICIPANTS: 115 community pharmacists from all over the Croatia. INTERVENTIONS: 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. OUTCOME MEASURE: 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. RESULTS: 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. CONCLUSIONS: 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. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7265009/ /pubmed/32487573 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034674 Text en © 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. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Zekan, Lovre
Mestrovic, Arijana
Perisin, Ana Seselja
Bukic, Josipa
Leskur, Dario
Rusic, Doris
Modun, Darko
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
title 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
title_full 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
title_fullStr 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
title_full_unstemmed 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
title_short 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
title_sort 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
topic Medical Education and Training
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7265009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32487573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034674
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