Determinants of community pharmacists' quality of care: a population-based cohort study using pharmacy administrative claims data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if a prototype pharmacists' services evaluation programme that uses linked community pharmacy claims and health administrative data to measure pharmacists' performance can be used to identify characteristics of pharmacies providing higher quality of care.

Design

Population-based cohort study using community pharmacy claims from 1 November 2009 to 30 June 2010.

Setting

All community pharmacies in Quebec, Canada.

Participants

1742 pharmacies dispensing 8 655 348 antihypertensive prescriptions to 760 700 patients.

Primary outcome measure

Patient adherence to antihypertensive medications.

Predictors

Pharmacy level: dispensing workload, volume of pharmacist-provided professional services (eg, refusals to dispense, pharmacotherapy

SUBMITTER: Winslade N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623573 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature