A survey of the professional activities of pharmacists was distributed by
PharmWeb last month. Whilst the response by community pharmacists was very
good, there was little response from hospital pharmacists. If you are a
hospital pharmacist, we would be grateful if you could spend a few minutes
filling in the survey below and send the results to:
akaho@pharm.kobegakuin.ac.jp
Thr results will be presented at the FIP meeting in Vancouver.
Thank you.
Regards,
Tony D'Emanuele
PharmWeb
Survey of Professional Activity of Hospital Pharmacists and Promotion of
the Status
Dear hospital pharmacists:
As each of you recognize, the health care environment is constantly
changing. As we plan for and adapt to these changes, the goal we must
be striving for is the need for better health care for all citizens.
As far as hospital pharmacists activity is concerned, cognitive
service
and knowledge-based service are becoming more and more important
and those services should be paid properly in order for the hospital
pharmacist to be able to perform those activities comfortably.
In order to achieve these goals, the first step is to know the
current status of the professional activity in the hospital pharmacy
environment. We would appreciate your assistance in filling out the
following questionnaire.
An agreement has been made between FIP and the authors to conduct
this survey in conjunction with PharmWeb and FIP with the support of
an educational grant from Glaxo Welcome. Your cooperation and time
is appreciated. Results will be analyzed by the authors and reported
at he FIP and other academic meetings.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Sincerely yours,
Mary Lea Harper-Gora, PharmD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Director, Drug
Information Center College of Pharmacy
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
USA
Eiichi Akaho, PhD
Associate Professor of Pharmacy
Kobe Gakuin University
Kobe, Japan
Keith W. Johnson
President, Pharmacy Information Section
USP, Rockville, MD, USA
Please fill in and/or check the appropriate number in the following
questionnaire and please send it back to us as soon as possible,
hopefully by August 20 (Monday).
I. Demographic Data
a) First name Middle initial Last name
b) email address
c) Name of hospital /institution
d) Gender: Male/Female
e) Are you representing an organization (or association ) to fill this
questionnaire?
( )1. Yes ( )2.No
If yes, please specify the name of the organization or association
and your title:
h) Who establishes the payment system for professional activities in
your practice?
( ) government
( ) institution
( ) insurance organization
( ) others
If others, please specify:
i) Any other comment.
j) Today's date;
k) Name of your country
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II. Professional activity
a) In your hospital, does the pharmacist routinely monitor the patient
chart for drug therapy?
( )1. Yes ( )2. No
If the answer is yes, please specify the type of monitoring activity:
b) In your hospital, does the pharmacist undertake patient ward
rounds either alone or with other health professionals?
( )1. Yes ( )2. No
If the answer is yes, please specify the type of ward round activity:
c) In your hospital, does the pharmacist play a role in cost
effectiveness determinations of drug therapy?
( )1. Yes ( )2. No
If the answer is yes, please specify the type of cost effectiveness
activity:
d) In your hospital does the pharmacist play a role in the promotion
of quality of life of the patient?
( )1. Yes ( )2. No
If the answer is yes, please specify the type of promotion activity:
e) In your hospital does the pharmacist counsel patients?
( )1. Yes ( )2. No
If the answer is yes, please specify the type of counseling activity:
f) In your hospital does the pharmacist provide clinical
pharmacokinetics services?
( )1. Yes ( )2. No
If the answer is yes, please specify the type of clinical
pharmacokinetics services.
g) In your hospital, does the pharmacist keep patient drug profile?
( )1. Yes ( )2. No
h) In your hospital, does the pharmacist consult with physicians?
( )1. Yes ( )2. No
If the answer is yes, please specify the type of consultation with
physicians.
i) In your hospital, does the pharmacist perform the discharge interview?
( )1. Yes ( )2. No
j) In your hospital, is there Drug Information center?
( )1. Yes ( )2. No
k) There is a principle accepted by many health care providers that
better health care will be provided under the circumstance in which
more
than two types of professionals (in this particular case, physician
and
pharmacist) cooperate and interact.
Do you agree with the above principle?
( )1. Yes ( )2. No
If you agree, please provide examples of what these cooperative
activities might be:
In order to promote the principle mentioned in item (h), what
should pharmacists do?
m) To the best of your knowledge, how do you rate the salary of the
average hospital pharmacist in your country against the average salary
of all citizens in your country?
( )1. below the average ( )2. Average
( )3. about 1.25 times higher than the average
( )4. About 1.5 times higher as the average
( )5. about 1.75 times higher than the average
( )6. about 2 times higher than the average
( )7. about 3 times higher than the average
( )8. over 3 times higher than the average
n) In your opinion, what would be the appropriate salary of the
hospital
pharmacist who provides cognitive and knowledge-based services?
( )1. About the same as the present
( )2. about 1.25 times higher than the present
( )3. about 1.5 times higher than the present
( )4. about 1.75 times higher than the present
( )5. about 2.0 times higher than the present
( )6. about 3 times higher than the present
( )7. over 3 times higher than the present
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Eiichi Akaho, Ph. D. <akaho@pharm.kobegakuin.ac.jp>
Associate Professor of Pharmacy
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Kobe Gakuin University
Nishi-ku, Kobe 651-21 JAPAN
Tel:81-78-974-1551 Fax:81-78-974-5689
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