Pharmacist's time spent: Space for Pharmacy-based Interventions and Consultation TimE (SPICE)-an observational time and motion study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the pharmacists' workflow, including tasks and time spent, to better understand their work capacity.

Design

Cross-sectional, observational, time and motion study.

Setting

Community pharmacies in Western Australia and New South Wales, Australia.

Participants

Currently registered and practising pharmacists were approached using snowball sampling and selected using purposive techniques to obtain balance representation of metropolitan and rural pharmacies, as well as high and low script volumes where possible.

Results

Twenty-four pharmacists across 15 pharmacies participated during the 135 sessions totalling over 274 hours of observation. Dispensing (30%), indirect patient services (17%), counselling (15%) and professional management ac

SUBMITTER: Karia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8896034 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature