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Measuring the Development of Therapeutic-Decision-Making Skills by Practicing Pharmacists Undertaking a University-Based Postgraduate Clinical Qualification at Distance
(1) Background: The processes and skills required to make decisions about drug therapy have been termed “therapeutic decision-making” in pharmacy practice. The aim of this study was to evaluate a tool constructed to measure the development of therapeutic-decision-making skills by practicing pharmaci...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7355896/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32403341 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8020083 |
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author | Wright, Daniel F. B. Duffull, Stephen B. Wilby, Kyle J. Peterson, Aynsley K. Anakin, Megan G. |
author_facet | Wright, Daniel F. B. Duffull, Stephen B. Wilby, Kyle J. Peterson, Aynsley K. Anakin, Megan G. |
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description | (1) Background: The processes and skills required to make decisions about drug therapy have been termed “therapeutic decision-making” in pharmacy practice. The aim of this study was to evaluate a tool constructed to measure the development of therapeutic-decision-making skills by practicing pharmacists undertaking a university-based continuing professional development program. (2) Methods: A pre- and post-intervention crossover study design was used to investigate the qualitative and quantitative features of practicing pharmacists’ responses to two clinical vignettes designed to measure the development of therapeutic-decision-making skills. The vignettes were assigned a score using a five-point scale and compared pre- and post-intervention. (3) Results: There was a median increase in score of 2 units on the five-point scale in the post-intervention scores compared to pre-intervention (p < 0.0001). (4) Conclusions: The results were interpreted to suggest that the participants’ responses to the vignettes are a reasonable measure of student learning. Therefore, we infer that the teaching and learning intervention successfully enabled the development of therapeutic-decision-making skills by practicing pharmacists. |
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spelling | pubmed-73558962020-07-22 Measuring the Development of Therapeutic-Decision-Making Skills by Practicing Pharmacists Undertaking a University-Based Postgraduate Clinical Qualification at Distance Wright, Daniel F. B. Duffull, Stephen B. Wilby, Kyle J. Peterson, Aynsley K. Anakin, Megan G. Pharmacy (Basel) Article (1) Background: The processes and skills required to make decisions about drug therapy have been termed “therapeutic decision-making” in pharmacy practice. The aim of this study was to evaluate a tool constructed to measure the development of therapeutic-decision-making skills by practicing pharmacists undertaking a university-based continuing professional development program. (2) Methods: A pre- and post-intervention crossover study design was used to investigate the qualitative and quantitative features of practicing pharmacists’ responses to two clinical vignettes designed to measure the development of therapeutic-decision-making skills. The vignettes were assigned a score using a five-point scale and compared pre- and post-intervention. (3) Results: There was a median increase in score of 2 units on the five-point scale in the post-intervention scores compared to pre-intervention (p < 0.0001). (4) Conclusions: The results were interpreted to suggest that the participants’ responses to the vignettes are a reasonable measure of student learning. Therefore, we infer that the teaching and learning intervention successfully enabled the development of therapeutic-decision-making skills by practicing pharmacists. MDPI 2020-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7355896/ /pubmed/32403341 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8020083 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wright, Daniel F. B. Duffull, Stephen B. Wilby, Kyle J. Peterson, Aynsley K. Anakin, Megan G. Measuring the Development of Therapeutic-Decision-Making Skills by Practicing Pharmacists Undertaking a University-Based Postgraduate Clinical Qualification at Distance |
title | Measuring the Development of Therapeutic-Decision-Making Skills by Practicing Pharmacists Undertaking a University-Based Postgraduate Clinical Qualification at Distance |
title_full | Measuring the Development of Therapeutic-Decision-Making Skills by Practicing Pharmacists Undertaking a University-Based Postgraduate Clinical Qualification at Distance |
title_fullStr | Measuring the Development of Therapeutic-Decision-Making Skills by Practicing Pharmacists Undertaking a University-Based Postgraduate Clinical Qualification at Distance |
title_full_unstemmed | Measuring the Development of Therapeutic-Decision-Making Skills by Practicing Pharmacists Undertaking a University-Based Postgraduate Clinical Qualification at Distance |
title_short | Measuring the Development of Therapeutic-Decision-Making Skills by Practicing Pharmacists Undertaking a University-Based Postgraduate Clinical Qualification at Distance |
title_sort | measuring the development of therapeutic-decision-making skills by practicing pharmacists undertaking a university-based postgraduate clinical qualification at distance |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7355896/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32403341 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8020083 |
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