<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> A six-month longitudinal intervention arm study with a pre-post cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was performed. A 3-phase objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) design was utilized for evaluation of acceptance and attitude of pharmacy students towards clinical pharmacy services. The pre-OSCE survey showed increased disagreement with the role of clinical pharmacists, compared to a significant positive shift in attitude towards their services in the healthcare team after 6 months of the trial. Responses improved for awareness (the current healthcare system could be improved by involving pharmacists, p &lt; 0.02) and positive attitude categories (doctors and nurses would be happy to welcome the services of competent clinical pharmacists as part of their team, p &lt; 0.01) in addition to competency (pharmacists have sufficient clinical training to advise doctors and nurses, p &lt; 0.01). The predictive model suggested a strong positive effect on patient interaction, medical information tasks, clinical decisions on drug-related problems (DRPs), and communication with healthcare professionals (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.41, F = 1.51, p &lt; 0.001).</p></abstract>

A six-month longitudinal intervention arm study with a pre-post cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was performed. A 3-phase objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) design was utilized for evaluation of acceptance and attitude of pharmacy students towards clinical pharmacy services. The pre-OSCE survey showed increased disagreement with the role of clinical pharmacists, compared to a significant positive shift in attitude towards their services in the healthcare team after 6 months of the trial. Responses improved for awareness (the current healthcare system could be improved by involving pharmacists, p < 0.02) and positive attitude categories (doctors and nurses would be happy to welcome the services of competent clinical pharmacists as part of their team, p < 0.01) in addition to competency (pharmacists have sufficient clinical training to advise doctors and nurses, p < 0.01). The predictive model suggested a strong positive effect on patient interaction, medical information tasks, clinical decisions on drug-related problems (DRPs), and communication with healthcare professionals (R2 = 0.41, F = 1.51, p < 0.001).

Public health care system, a quasi-experimental study: Acceptance and attitude to implicate clinical services

Acta Pharmaceutica

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A six-month longitudinal intervention arm study with a pre-post cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was performed. A 3-phase objective structured...

Public health care system, a quasi-experimental study: Acceptance and attitude to implicate clinical services

Article Category: Original research paper

Published Online: Feb 21, 2017

Page range: 71 - 83

Accepted: Oct 25, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/acph-2017-0008

Keywords
clinical pharmacy, pharmacy education, clinical training, objectively structured clinical examination

© by Syed Wasif Gillani

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Public health care system, a quasi-experimental study: Acceptance and attitude to implicate clinical services

Article Category: Original research paper

Published Online: Feb 21, 2017

Page range: 71 - 83

Accepted: Oct 25, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/acph-2017-0008

Keywordsclinical pharmacy, pharmacy education, clinical training, objectively structured clinical examination

© by Syed Wasif Gillani

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
clinical pharmacy, pharmacy education, clinical training, objectively structured clinical examination