Avoiding Treatment Interruptions: What Role Do Australian Community Pharmacists Play?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the reported practice of Australian community pharmacists when dealing with medication supply requests in absence of a valid prescription.

Methods

Self-administered questionnaire was posted to 1490 randomly selected community pharmacies across all Australian states and territories. This sample was estimated to be a 20% of all Australian community pharmacies.

Results

Three hundred eighty five pharmacists participated in the study (response rate achieved was 27.9% (there were 111 undelivered questionnaires). Respondents indicated that they were more likely to provide medications to regular customers without a valid prescription compared to non-regular customers (p<0.0001). However, supply was also influenced by the type of prescription and the medic

SUBMITTER: Abukres SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4865180 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature