Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP
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Res Social Adm Pharm · Jan 2012
Integration and differentiation: a conceptual model of general practitioner and community pharmacist collaboration.
The drive for integrative systems and collaboration across organizations and professions involved in the provision of health and social care has led to the development of a number of scales and models that conceptualize collaborative behavior. Few models have captured the dynamics of the collaboration between community pharmacy and general medicine, 2 professional groups that are increasingly being encouraged to adopt more collaborative practices to improve patient care. ⋯ The model provides a foundation for the future development of strategy and research focused on the improvement or study of collaborative relationships between community pharmacy and general practice.
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Res Social Adm Pharm · Jan 2012
Consumer perspectives of the Australian Home Medicines Review Program: benefits and barriers.
The Australian Home Medicines Review (HMR) is a free consumer service to assist individuals living at home to maximize the benefits of their medicine regimen and prevent medication-related problems. It consists of a pharmacist reviewing a person's medicines and collaborating with the general practitioner to optimize the individual's medicine management. The uptake of this service has remained below the projected use, although the program has shown to successfully identify medication-related problems and improve drug knowledge and adherence of the patient. ⋯ It is expected that direct-to-consumer promotion of HMRs would increase the uptake of this valuable service. It would be necessary to ensure that the process and benefits of the service are communicated clearly and sensitively to eligible patients and their carers to obviate common consumer misconceptions and/or barriers regarding the HMR service. Furthermore, any direct-to-consumer promotion of the service must enable patient/carer self-identification of eligibility.