A national survey exploring oral healthcare service provision across Australian community pharmacies.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study investigated pharmacists' and pharmacy assistants' current practices and perspectives with regard to oral healthcare provision across Australian community pharmacies.

Design

Cross-sectional study. A questionnaire for each pharmacist and pharmacy assistant cohort was developed and administered by online or postal means. Pearson's χ² test was used to examine relationships between categorical variables.

Participants

Pharmacists and pharmacy assistants working within 2100 randomly selected Australian community pharmacies.

Results

The overall response rate was 58.5% (644/1100) for the pharmacist cohort and 28% (280/1000) for the pharmacy assistant cohort. This represents pharmacy staff responses from 803 community pharmacies across A

SUBMITTER: Freeman CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5640116 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature