Community pharmacy-based SOAP notes documentation.

ABSTRACT: There is still scarce and sparse evidence regarding documentation of the subjective, objective, assessment and plan (SOAP) note in community pharmacies despite its long implementation history in clinical and academia settings. Hence, we aimed to document and maintain SOAP notes for individual patients visiting community pharmacies for their health problems. We conducted a community-based cross-sectional study at 2 community pharmacies in Nepal from July to December 2019. We recruited 400 patients from all age groups suffering from any health problem using simple random sampling. Patients' subjective complaints were retrieved from their respective prescriptions and verified by interviewing them. Data were collected on the standard format of the SOAP notes and all data related to patients' s

SUBMITTER: Sapkota B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9333531 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature