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Original Research
TaBle 3
Pharmacists' experiences with the saskatchewan Medication Assessment Program (sMAP)
Strongly
agree
agree
Not sure
Disagree
Strongly
disagree
I enjoy performing sMAP assessments, n (%)
N = 188
52 (27.7)
107 (56.9)
14 (7.4)
13 (6.9)
I am confident in my ability to identify drug-related
problems, n (%)
N = 195
43 (22.1)
129 (66.2)
17 (8.7)
6 (3.1)
I have trouble identifying drug-related problems because
I do not have adequate patient history, n (%)
N = 195
23 (11.8)
108 (55.4)
19 (9.7)
44 (22.6)
I feel comfortable discussing my recommendations with
patients, n (%)
N = 195
63 (32.3)
125 (64.1)
6 (3.1)
1 (0.5)
0 (0)
I feel comfortable discussing my recommendations with
physicians, n (%)
N = 191
27 (14.1)
129 (67.5)
23 (12.0)
12 (6.3)
0 (0)
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
always
How often do you contact physicians for additional patient
history? n (%)
N = 195
How often do you access additional patient history from
the provincial electronic health record? n (%)
N = 161
How often do physicians agree with your
recommendations? n (%)
N = 182
How often do patients agree with your recommendations?
n (%)
N = 190
0 (0)
1 (0.5)
3 (1.5)
17 (8.7)
63 (32.3)
87 (44.6)
25 (12.8)
96 (59.6)
32 (19.9)
18 (11.2)
9 (5.6)
6 (3.7)
0 (0)
63 (34.6)
101 (55.5)
17 (9.4)
1 (0.5)
13 (6.8)
137 (72.1)
39 (20.5)
1 (0.5)
When asked about their top 3 facilitators, the
most common responses were pharmacy staff
teamwork, employer support and personal pharmacist commitment to the program (Figure 2).
Themes from free-text responses
There were 9 free-text questions included in the
questionnaire, asking respondents to expand
on Likert scale answers and provide additional
comments, and 9 themes that emerged from the
data analysis.
Theme 1: Poor collaboration and communication with physicians limited the ability of
198
almost
always
2 (1.1)
0 (0)
pharmacists to implement their recommendations. Respondents believed that
this issue was rooted in physicians' lack of
understanding of the value of the service,
which resulted in their subsequent disinterest in collaborating.
Theme 2: Insufficient patient information
made it difficult to perform assessments.
While respondents praised the availability of the provincial electronic health
record to access laboratory/diagnostic test
results and a list of previously dispensed
medications, they still felt that they lacked
access to some information necessary to
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Dietary sodium and the health of Canadians
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Canada’s new Healthy Eating Strategy: Implications for health care professionals and a call to action
Report from the 2018 National Summit on Wicked Problems in Community Pharmacy
Medical abortion: A practice tool for pharmacists
Community-based management of epistaxis: Who bloody knows?
The pharmacist’s role in successful deprescribing through hospital medication reconciliation
Pharmacists to improve hypertension management: Guideline concordance from North America to Europe
The patient experience in a community pharmacy mental illness and addictions program
Community pharmacists’ experiences with the Saskatchewan Medication Assessment Program
Cross-Canada updates
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