Prescription Modification by Pharmacists in a Hospital Setting: Are Ontario Pharmacists Ready?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Under Ontario's Public Hospitals Act, the scope of professional practice of hospital pharmacists is approved by each hospital's medical advisory committee. Some Ontario hospitals have adopted policies or medical directives related to prescription modification, allowing pharmacists to broadly adapt, discontinue, hold, or renew prescriptions as part of their clinical scope of practice.

Objectives

The primary objective of this study was to describe Ontario hospital pharmacists' perception of their readiness to independently modify prescriptions. The secondary objectives of this study were to gather opinions on the perceived benefits, drawbacks, facilitators, and barriers to prescription modification by pharmacists and to determine how various factors affect perceived

SUBMITTER: Vuong V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8237955 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature