Objective. Analyze quality improvement (QI) education across US pharmacy programs. Methods. This was a two stage cross-sectional study that inspected each accredited school website for published QI curriculum or related content, and e-mailed a questionnaire to each school asking about QI curriculum or content. T-test and chi square were used for analysis with an alpha a priori set at .05. Results. Sixty responses (47% response rate) revealed the least-covered QI topics: quality dashboards /sentinel systems (30%); six-sigma or other QI methodologies (45%); safety and quality measures (57%); Medicare Star measures and payment incentives (58%); and how to implement changes to improve quality (60%). More private institutions covered Adverse Drug Events than public institutions and required a dedicated QI class; however, required QI projects were more often reported by public institutions. Conclusion. Despite the need for pharmacists to understand QI, it is not covered well in school curricula.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/624022 |
| Date | 04 1900 |
| Creators | Cooley, Janet, Stolpe, Samuel F, Montoya, Amber, Walsh, Angela, Hincapie, Ana L, Arya, Vibhuti, Nelson, Melissa L, Warholak, Terri |
| Contributors | Univ Arizona, Coll Pharm |
| Publisher | AMER ASSOC COLL PHARMACY |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Rights | © 2017 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy |
| Relation | http://www.ajpe.org/doi/full/10.5688/ajpe81351, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5423067/ |
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