Decentralized Inpatient Pharmacy Service Study. Part B. The Relative Merits of Decentralized/Clinical Pharmacy Services

摘要

The purpose of this research was to identify the functional requirements and acceptability of decentralized/clinical pharmacy services by health care professionals. In June 1979, a random sample of nurses, physicians, and pharmacists assigned to 35 Army Medical Treatment Facilities in the United States were required to complete surveys designed to assess their perceptions of various pharmacy support activities. The results showed that pharmacists rate as most important job tasks which require providing pharmaceutical information to health care professionals. Close pharmacist/staff communication is necessary to promote positive attitudes toward specific pharmaceutical tasks. Health care workers are most satisfied with pharmacy services in which the pharmacist provides information to the professional staff and most dissatified with patient education in medication compliance and drug discharge consultation. The five clinical areas perceived to have the greatest demand for decentralized/clinical pharmacy support are Medical ICU, Surgical ICU, Oncology, Cardiology, and Pediatrics.