Qualitative investigation of barriers to providing an electronic hospital to community pharmacy referral service for discharged patients.

ABSTRACT: There has been a sustained interest in transfer of care (ToC) services, from hospital to home, in the past twenty years. In England, an electronic referral (e-referral) service from hospital to community pharmacy has been provided since 2014. However, to date, there has been little information about service implementation and delivery. This study investigates the barriers to this referral process in hospital and community pharmacy settings, and barriers to providing subsequent community pharmacy interventions from the perspectives of the service leaders (SLs), hospital pharmacy staff (HPS) and community pharmacists (CPs). Semi-structured face-to-face or telephone interviews were conducted with the key informants from two tertiary hospitals and nine pharmacies. The Consolidated Framework fo

SUBMITTER: Khayyat SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10065289 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature