Quality improvement of community pharmacy services: a prioritisation exercise.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Effective strategies are needed to translate knowledge (evidence) into practice to improve the quality of community pharmacy services. We report the first step of a novel knowledge translation process which involved the systematic identification and prioritisation of community pharmacy services in Scotland which were perceived to require improvement and/or guideline development.

Methods

This process involved three stages and a stakeholder group comprising community pharmacists, policy makers, lay and pharmacy organisation representatives. A modified nominal group technique (NGT) was used for topic generation (August 2013) followed by an electronic Delphi survey (eDelphi), October-December 2013) and topic rationalisation (December 2013) based on feasibility, accept

SUBMITTER: Newlands RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5811898 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature