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Health care professionals' and students' attitude toward collaboration between pharmacists and physicians in Croatia.
- Source :
- International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy; Feb2016, Vol. 38 Issue 1, p16-19, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- <bold>Background: </bold>As traditional roles of pharmacists and physicians seem nowadays insufficient to ensure patient safety and therapy effectiveness, interprofessional collaboration has been suggested to improve health outcomes.<bold>Objective: </bold>To assess and compare the attitudes of physicians and pharmacists, as well as medical and pharmacy students in Croatia, toward interprofessional collaboration in primary health care.<bold>Methods: </bold>The study included 513 pharmacists and physicians, and 365 students of pharmacy and medicine from Croatia. The validated questionnaire, Scale of Attitudes Toward Physician–Pharmacist Collaboration, was translated in Croatian and completed, anonymously and voluntarily, by all participants. Results Pharmacists showed a more positive attitude toward collaboration than physicians (53.8 ± 4.8 vs. 50.7 ± 5.0). Pharmacy students expressed the most positive attitude (56.2 ± 4.9), while medical students showed the remarkably lowest attitude toward collaboration (44.6 ± 6.2).<bold>Conclusion: </bold>Pharmacists and physicians in Croatia expressed a relatively positive attitude toward their collaboration, comparable with their colleges in the USA. On the other hand, medical students expressed a 21 % less positive attitude than pharmacy students which could have an effect on interprofessional collaboration in the future when those students start working as health care professionals. Future studies, focusing on the promotion of this collaboration, on both under-graduated and post-graduated level, are warranted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
PRIMARY health care
PHYSICIANS' attitudes
PHARMACISTS
MEDICAL students
PHARMACY students
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
COMPARATIVE studies
COOPERATIVENESS
HEALTH attitudes
HEALTH care teams
HEALTH occupations students
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
MEDICAL personnel
PSYCHOLOGY of medical students
PSYCHOLOGY of physicians
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH
OCCUPATIONAL roles
EVALUATION research
CROSS-sectional method
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22107703
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 112692482
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-015-0215-z