Pharmaceutical research
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Pharmaceutical research · Feb 1997
The Pharmacists' Implementation of Pharmaceutical Care (PIPC) model.
Study purpose was to develop a theoretical framework that will explain pharmacists' behavior relative to the provision of pharmaceutical care. The model was developed from four attitude models by testing their predictive validity relative to pharmaceutical care implementation. Four hypotheses and one research question were investigated to identify determinants of behavioral intention and behavior. ⋯ The PIPC model provides a formal scientifically validated theoretical framework which can be used to design successful intervention for pharmaceutical care implementation.
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Pharmaceutical research · Feb 1997
The association of prescription status, patient age, patient gender, and patient question asking behavior with the content of pharmacist-patient communication.
Data from 358 pharmacist-patient encounters in 12 community pharmacies were used to investigate the association of prescription status, patient age, patient gender, and patient question asking with the content of pharmacist-patient communication. ⋯ An important cue for improvement of pharmacist-patient communication was patient question asking. Thus, it is imperative to find ways to increase question asking by patients and understand why some patients are reluctant to ask their pharmacist questions.