The task of verifying prescription accuracy was positively associated with monitoring demands and negatively associated with volume demands (having enough time to get work done). Patient consultation performance was positively associated with cognitive (using skills and
knowledge) and monitoring demands and FDA-approved Drug Library screening negatively associated with external demands.
Conclusion: These findings revealed the importance of measuring workload demands after separating the demands into categories and that different work demands are associated with performance of different tasks. As a result, no one solution will improve performance, and specific work environments must be considered when crafting solutions.”
“Objective: To
examine Illinois pharmacists’ knowledge of and barriers to health literacy.
Design: Cross-sectional descriptive Belnacasan mouse study.
Setting: Illinois, August to November 2009.
Participants: 701 Illinois pharmacists.
Intervention: Mail survey.
Main outcome measures: Pharmacists’ knowledge (percent correct), mean barrier factors, and percent agreement of barrier items.
Results: Usable responses were obtained from 701 respondents out of 1,457 pharmacists receiving surveys (48.1%). Percent correct for knowledge items ranged from 31.5% to 95.4% with only 19% to 27% of respondents answering a majority of the items correctly. Pharmacists had poor knowledge (percent correct) about prevalence of low health literacy (31.5%), its relationship to years of schooling (46.9%) and its lack of relationship to reading comprehension (48.4%). Overall GSK690693 solubility dmso process and practice-related barrier domain items were the most important barriers. In particular, the most frequently cited barriers towards low health literacy interventions were lack of adequate time (90.4%), use of mail order (83.8%), and presence of convenient delivery mechanisms (82.8%), all process barriers. Majority of respondents (57.3%) agreed that lack of knowledge about health
literacy and its consequences is a barrier. Significant differences existed for barrier factors by demographics. Multivariate analysis examining the relationship between knowledge and barriers after controlling for demographics revealed no significant differences.
Conclusion: Pharmacists have limited knowledge of health literacy. We suggest training programs designed to address poor knowledge, interpreter services, access to written information tailored for various reading grade levels, and minimizing functional barriers such as time constraints.”
“Objective: To develop and conduct an initial field test of the Drug Adherence Work-up (DRAW) tool, which was developed to guide pharmacists when addressing nonadherence during medication therapy management (MTM) visits.