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General practitioners’ views of pharmacist services in general practice: a qualitative evidence synthesis

BACKGROUND: Pharmacist services in general practice are expanding worldwide, with evidence to show pharmacists’ presence in general practice has financial, workload, and clinical benefits. Yet, little is known globally about general practitioners’ (GPs’) views on their presence in general practice....

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Autores principales: Hurley, Eoin, Gleeson, Laura L, Byrne, Stephen, Walsh, Elaine, Foley, Tony, Dalton, Kieran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9295606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34564715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab114
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author Hurley, Eoin
Gleeson, Laura L
Byrne, Stephen
Walsh, Elaine
Foley, Tony
Dalton, Kieran
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Gleeson, Laura L
Byrne, Stephen
Walsh, Elaine
Foley, Tony
Dalton, Kieran
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description BACKGROUND: Pharmacist services in general practice are expanding worldwide, with evidence to show pharmacists’ presence in general practice has financial, workload, and clinical benefits. Yet, little is known globally about general practitioners’ (GPs’) views on their presence in general practice. OBJECTIVE: To synthesize the qualitative research evidence on GPs’ views of pharmacist services in general practice. METHODS: Qualitative evidence synthesis; 8 electronic databases were searched from inception to April 2021 for qualitative studies that reported the views of GPs regarding pharmacist services in general practice. Data from included studies were analyzed using thematic synthesis. The Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research (CERQual) approach was used to assess the confidence in individual review findings. RESULTS: Nineteen studies were included, which captured the views of 159 GPs from 8 different countries. Four analytical themes describing the factors that should be considered in the development or optimization of pharmacist services in general practice, based on the views of GPs, were developed from the coded data and descriptive themes: (i) optimal environment for a pharmacist, (ii) the ideal pharmacist characteristics, (iii) complex stakeholder relationships, and (iv) benefits of an effective pharmacist. CONCLUSION: Based on the synthesis of GPs’ views, we have created a conceptual model of factors that should be considered by policymakers, GPs, pharmacists, and other relevant stakeholders when developing or optimizing pharmacist services in general practice going forward.
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spelling pubmed-92956062022-07-20 General practitioners’ views of pharmacist services in general practice: a qualitative evidence synthesis Hurley, Eoin Gleeson, Laura L Byrne, Stephen Walsh, Elaine Foley, Tony Dalton, Kieran Fam Pract Systematic Review BACKGROUND: Pharmacist services in general practice are expanding worldwide, with evidence to show pharmacists’ presence in general practice has financial, workload, and clinical benefits. Yet, little is known globally about general practitioners’ (GPs’) views on their presence in general practice. OBJECTIVE: To synthesize the qualitative research evidence on GPs’ views of pharmacist services in general practice. METHODS: Qualitative evidence synthesis; 8 electronic databases were searched from inception to April 2021 for qualitative studies that reported the views of GPs regarding pharmacist services in general practice. Data from included studies were analyzed using thematic synthesis. The Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research (CERQual) approach was used to assess the confidence in individual review findings. RESULTS: Nineteen studies were included, which captured the views of 159 GPs from 8 different countries. Four analytical themes describing the factors that should be considered in the development or optimization of pharmacist services in general practice, based on the views of GPs, were developed from the coded data and descriptive themes: (i) optimal environment for a pharmacist, (ii) the ideal pharmacist characteristics, (iii) complex stakeholder relationships, and (iv) benefits of an effective pharmacist. CONCLUSION: Based on the synthesis of GPs’ views, we have created a conceptual model of factors that should be considered by policymakers, GPs, pharmacists, and other relevant stakeholders when developing or optimizing pharmacist services in general practice going forward. Oxford University Press 2021-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9295606/ /pubmed/34564715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab114 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9295606/
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