National Survey on Clinical Pharmacy Services of Second-level Hospitals in China:Part 2. Analysis on the Status Quo of Clinical Pharmaceutical Services / 中国药学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To collect relevant data on the development of clinical pharmaceutical services in secondary hospitals in China and analyze the existing problems of clinical pharmaceutical services and provide relevant policy suggestions. METHODS: A face-to-face interview survey was conducted to collect data on the secondary hospital clinical pharmacists′ perception of their own work, physicians′ knowledge of clinical pharmacists′ work and patient′s attitude toward clinical pharmacists′ work, et al which was analyzed with descriptive statistics tools. RESULTS: Among the clinical pharmacists, physicians, and patients surveyed, 52.8% of clinical pharmacists think that the clinical pharmacists in the hospital work smoothly, but 35.8% of clinical pharmacists think the configuration of clinical pharmacists in the hospital is unreasonable; 42.0% of the doctors had a basic understanding of the work of clinical pharmacists; the attitude of the clinical pharmacists on medication recommendations or dosing regimens was mainly partly adopted (82.5%). Most of the patients did not understand but had heard of clinical pharmacy services (39.7%).CONCLUSION: The work and assignment of clinical pharmacists, understandings between clinical pharmacists and physician, patients of secondary hospitals in China require further improvement.