Implementation of personalized medicine services in community pharmacies: perceptions of independent community pharmacists.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the perceptions of independent community pharmacists within a regional independent community pharmacy cooperative on implementing personalized medicine services at their pharmacies and to gauge the pharmacists' self-reported knowledge of pharmacogenomic principles.

Design

Descriptive, exploratory, nonexperimental study.

Setting

American Pharmacy Services Corporation (APSC), 2011-12.

Participants

Pharmacists (n = 101) affiliated with the independent pharmacies of APSC.

Intervention

Single-mode survey.

Main outcome measures

Independent community pharmacists' interest in implementing personalized medicine services, perceived readiness to provide such services, and perceived barriers to implementation.

Results

101 complet

SUBMITTER: Alexander KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9226962 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature