dc.contributor.author
Moecker, Robert
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Weissenborn, Marina
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Klingenberg, Anja
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Wirbka, Lucas
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Fuchs, Andreas
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Eickhoff, Christiane
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Mueller, Uta
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Schulz, Martin
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Kaufmann-Kolle, Petra
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Haefeli, Walter E.
dc.date.accessioned
2022-09-19T08:38:44Z
dc.date.available
2022-09-19T08:38:44Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/36361
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-36077
dc.description.abstract
Background
Pharmacist-led medication review and medication management programs (MMP) are well-known strategies to improve medication safety and effectiveness. If performed interprofessionally, outcomes might even improve. However, little is known about task sharing in interprofessional MMP, in which general practitioners (GPs) and community pharmacists (CPs) collaboratively perform medication reviews and continuously follow-up on patients with designated medical and pharmaceutical tasks, respectively. In 2016, ARMIN (Arzneimittelinitiative Sachsen-Thüringen) an interprofessional MMP was launched in two German federal states, Saxony and Thuringia. The aim of this study was to understand how GPs and CPs share tasks in MMP when reviewing the patients’ medication.
Methods
This was a cross-sectional postal survey among GPs and CPs who participated in the MMP. Participants were asked who completed which MMP tasks, e.g., checking drug-drug interactions, dosing, and side effects. In total, 15 MMP tasks were surveyed using a 5-point Likert scale ranging from “I complete this task alone” to “GP/CP completes this task alone”. The study was conducted between 11/2020 and 04/2021. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics.
Results
In total, 114/165 (69.1%) GPs and 166/243 (68.3%) CPs returned a questionnaire. The majority of GPs and CPs reported (i) checking clinical parameters and medication overuse and underuse to be completed by GPs, (ii) checking storage conditions of drugs and initial compilation of the patient’s medication including brown bag review being mostly performed by CPs, and (iii) checking side-effects, non-adherence, and continuous updating of the medication list were carried out jointly. The responses differed most for problems with self-medication and adding and removing over-the-counter medicines from the medication list. In addition, the responses revealed that some MMP tasks were not sufficiently performed by either GPs or CPs.
Conclusions
Both GPs’ and CPs’ expertise are needed to perform MMP as comprehensively as possible. Future studies should explore how GPs and CPs can complement each other in MMP most efficiently.
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10 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Interprofessional medication management
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dc.subject
Medication review
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Primary care
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dc.subject
Task sharing
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dc.subject.ddc
600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::615 Pharmakologie, Therapeutik
dc.title
Task sharing in an interprofessional medication management program – a survey of general practitioners and community pharmacists
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
1005
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1186/s12913-022-08378-4
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
BMC Health Services Research
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
22
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08378-4
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Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie
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Institut für Pharmazie
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1472-6963
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