Medicine cures and kills people. In some advanced nations, prescription transparency is achieved through the separation of prescribing and dispensing, which further leads to public examination of prescriptions. Such an operation results in a restriction mechanism to prevent misuse and abuse of drugs and to guarantee the safety of consumers. Taiwan initiated the separation of prescribing and dispensing on March 1, 1997; however, most people do not recognize the significance of the system and conclude the issue to be an interest dispute between doctors and pharmacists. In the separation of prescribing and dispensing, disputes over the right of dispensation between doctors and pharmacists are commonly seen, but literatures are rarely found to review from consumers' position. This study plans to investigate consumers' viewpoints in respect of prescription transparency and understand its effect on satisfaction. Consequently, this study would be the benchmark for the government and health care sectors in promoting the separation of prescribing and dispensing.
The study found the followings:
1. The discrepancy between satisfaction and attention to drug information is 0.88. Most people are used to nontransparent prescriptions, so such non-transparency does not cause significant dissatisfaction.
2. Among the people interviewed, the prescription transparency service they receive is 100% in academic medical centers, 66% in hospitals, and 23% in clinics.
3. 52.3% of the interviewees pays strong attention to drug information, 31.8% pays attention, 11.4% pays little attention, 2.8% pays very little attention and 1.7% do not pay attention at all.
4. The results show the diversity of demand to prescription transparency.
Public displays different recognition to the importance of the list of medications: 82.5% thinks listing medication titles for easy reference. 81.9% considers the list represents a sense of responsibility from doctors and their prescriptions. 65.0% keeps the list for later use or for resolving medical disputes. 35.6% uses the list to enrich knowledge in medication. And 1.1% considers the list insignificant in all aspects.
5. Under the condition of non-transparent prescriptions, the educational level will influence the newly-developed factor in satisfaction. In other words, highly educated people tend to care more about prescription transparency
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0830101-141920 |
| Date | 30 August 2001 |
| Creators | Sun, Ping-chang |
| Contributors | Shu-chuan Jennifer Yeh, Herng-chia Chiu, Chin-ming Ho |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0830101-141920 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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