Process evaluation for the Care Homes Independent Pharmacist Prescriber Study (CHIPPS).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medicines management in care homes requires significant improvement. CHIPPS was a cluster randomised controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of integrating pharmacist independent prescribers into care homes to assume central responsibility for medicines management. This paper reports the parallel mixed-methods process evaluation.

Method

Intervention arm consisted of 25 triads: Care homes (staff and up to 24 residents), General Practitioner (GP) and Pharmacist Independent Prescriber (PIP). Data sources were pharmaceutical care plans (PCPs), pharmacist activity logs, online questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Quantitative data were analysed descriptively. Qualitative data were analysed thematically. Results were mapped to the process evaluation ob

SUBMITTER: Birt L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8487235 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature