Complementing or conflicting? How pharmacists and physicians position the community pharmacist.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interprofessional collaboration between pharmacists and physicians in primary care has been linked to improved patient outcomes. How professionals position themselves and each other can shed light upon their relationship, and positioning theory can be used as a tool to better understand intergroup relations.

Objectives

1) To identify how community pharmacists position themselves, and how they are positioned by general practitioners. 2) To assess how well these positions correspond, how the positions align with a proactive position for the pharmacists, and discuss how the positions could potentially impact collaboration.

Methods

In this qualitative study, data were collected through six focus group interviews held between June and October 2019, three with ph

SUBMITTER: Rakvaag H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7523557 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature