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Community Pharmacists’ Experiences and Perception about Transitions of Care from Hospital to Home in a Midwestern Metropolis
Objectives: (1) To describe the experiences of community pharmacists in transitions of care (TOC) from hospital to home in a Midwestern metropolis; and (2) to develop instruments to measure perceived importance of TOC activities. Methods: Survey items were developed, including a six-item instrument...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8708755/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34941625 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9040193 |
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author | Vossen, Rachel K. Liu, Yifei Kuehl, Peggy G. |
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description | Objectives: (1) To describe the experiences of community pharmacists in transitions of care (TOC) from hospital to home in a Midwestern metropolis; and (2) to develop instruments to measure perceived importance of TOC activities. Methods: Survey items were developed, including a six-item instrument to capture perceived importance of TOC activities. The items were piloted to examine face validity before dissemination to 310 community pharmacists. Descriptive statistics were reported. Principal component analysis and reliability analysis for the six-item instrument were performed to assess construct validity and Cronbach’s alpha, respectively. Results: The response rate was 37% (n = 118). The majority of community pharmacists estimated that they learned of a patient’s discharge on less than 10% of the occasions. There were 76 cases in which the discharged patients experienced either a prescription- or medication-related problem. For the six-item measurement of perceived importance, one component was yielded and all items loaded on the component with high values, which confirmed construct validity. The Cronbach’s alpha for these six items was 0.941, indicating high reliability. Conclusions: A large communication gap existed for community pharmacists to receive patient discharge information. The six-item instrument to measure perceived importance of TOC activities was valid and reliable. |
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spelling | pubmed-87087552021-12-25 Community Pharmacists’ Experiences and Perception about Transitions of Care from Hospital to Home in a Midwestern Metropolis Vossen, Rachel K. Liu, Yifei Kuehl, Peggy G. Pharmacy (Basel) Article Objectives: (1) To describe the experiences of community pharmacists in transitions of care (TOC) from hospital to home in a Midwestern metropolis; and (2) to develop instruments to measure perceived importance of TOC activities. Methods: Survey items were developed, including a six-item instrument to capture perceived importance of TOC activities. The items were piloted to examine face validity before dissemination to 310 community pharmacists. Descriptive statistics were reported. Principal component analysis and reliability analysis for the six-item instrument were performed to assess construct validity and Cronbach’s alpha, respectively. Results: The response rate was 37% (n = 118). The majority of community pharmacists estimated that they learned of a patient’s discharge on less than 10% of the occasions. There were 76 cases in which the discharged patients experienced either a prescription- or medication-related problem. For the six-item measurement of perceived importance, one component was yielded and all items loaded on the component with high values, which confirmed construct validity. The Cronbach’s alpha for these six items was 0.941, indicating high reliability. Conclusions: A large communication gap existed for community pharmacists to receive patient discharge information. The six-item instrument to measure perceived importance of TOC activities was valid and reliable. MDPI 2021-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8708755/ /pubmed/34941625 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9040193 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Vossen, Rachel K. Liu, Yifei Kuehl, Peggy G. Community Pharmacists’ Experiences and Perception about Transitions of Care from Hospital to Home in a Midwestern Metropolis |
title | Community Pharmacists’ Experiences and Perception about Transitions of Care from Hospital to Home in a Midwestern Metropolis |
title_full | Community Pharmacists’ Experiences and Perception about Transitions of Care from Hospital to Home in a Midwestern Metropolis |
title_fullStr | Community Pharmacists’ Experiences and Perception about Transitions of Care from Hospital to Home in a Midwestern Metropolis |
title_full_unstemmed | Community Pharmacists’ Experiences and Perception about Transitions of Care from Hospital to Home in a Midwestern Metropolis |
title_short | Community Pharmacists’ Experiences and Perception about Transitions of Care from Hospital to Home in a Midwestern Metropolis |
title_sort | community pharmacists’ experiences and perception about transitions of care from hospital to home in a midwestern metropolis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8708755/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34941625 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9040193 |
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