Pediatric pharmacists' perspectives on essential skills and activities for community pharmacists caring for pediatric patients: A mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Provision of care to pediatric patients represents a set of unique challenges for pharmacists. Pharmacists practising in pediatric-specialty areas (acute care or ambulatory) have unique perspectives on approaches to pediatric care that can be shared to support pharmacists less familiar with this group of patients in providing effective, patient-centred care.

Methods

This was a mixed-methods study using data from pharmacist interviews to quantify and qualitatively describe the approaches to care most commonly reported by pediatric-specialty pharmacists when asked to provide advice to pharmacists on providing pharmaceutical care to infants and children. Data were coded in duplicate using an inductive approach, and discrepancies were resolved by consensus. The number

SUBMITTER: Kelly J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7560562 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature