Acceptance and attitudes of healthcare staff towards the introduction of clinical pharmacy service: a descriptive cross-sectional study from a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka

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• 作者：Lelwala Guruge Thushani Shanika ; Chandrani Nirmala Wijekoon…
• 关键词：Clinical pharmacist ; Acceptance ; Attitudes ; Doctors ; Nurses ; Multidisciplinary team ; Drug ; related problems
• 刊名：BMC Health Services Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：473KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Health Administration; Health Informatics; Nursing Research;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6963
• 卷排序：17

文摘

BackgroundMultidisciplinary patient management including a clinical pharmacist shows an improvement in patient quality use of medicine. Implementation of a clinical pharmacy service represents a significant novel change in practice in Sri Lanka. Although attitudes of doctors and nurses are an important determinant of successful implementation, there is no Sri Lankan data about staff attitudes to such changes in clinical practice. This study determines the level of acceptance and attitudes of doctors and nurses towards the introduction of a ward-based clinical pharmacy service in Sri Lanka.