Class of 2005 Abstract / Objective: To determine what factors rural pharmacists believe affect their ability to counsel patients and provide pharmaceutical care.
Subjects: Pharmacy managers in retail pharmacies in rural cities in Arizona (population <30,000).
Methods: Questionnaires were administered through phone conversations regarding amount of time spent on counseling, items included in a counsel, views on counseling, factors impacting ability to counsel, patient care services provided, access to educational materials, difficulty and methods of getting time off, number of vacations taken, commute time to work, years working in a rural area and as a pharmacist, and location of college that pharmacists graduated from.
Results: Questionnaires were completed by 40 pharmacy managers (80% response rate). Pharmacists that spent more time counseling believed that counseling had a larger impact on patient outcomes that those that counseled less. Those that counseled more had also taken more vacations in the previous ten years.
Implications: Pharmacists views on the impact that their counseling has on patient outcomes affects the amount of time they spend on counseling of patients.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/624722 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Davis, Maranda, Terminelli, Sarah |
| Contributors | Slack, Marion, College of Pharmacy, The University of Arizona |
| Publisher | The University of Arizona. |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Electronic Report |
| Rights | Copyright © is held by the author. |
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