National Survey on Clinical Pharmacy Services of Tertiary Hospitals in China: Part 3. Status Quo of Clinical Pharmacy Service Provision / 中国药学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To obtain data related to status quo of clinical pharmacy service provision of tertiary hospitals, find problems in clinical pharmacy service provision, based on which provide advice on policy formulation. METHODS: A face-to-face interview survey was conducted to collect data on status quo of clinical pharmacy service provision of Tertiary hospitals which were analyzed with descriptive statistics tools. RESULTS: The proportions of clinical pharmacy related workload to 86.4% of the clinical pharmacists are larger than 40%; relatively more clinical pharmacists focus their work on prescription checking(25.9%), therapeutic regimen(17.3%) or pharmaceutical ward round(15.7%) than other services; medical documentation(53.6%), group consultation(51.7%) and drug abuse prevention(27.3%) are less performed by clinical pharmacists than other duties; 96.9% of the physicians recognized the clinical value of clinical pharmacists' work, and 97.1% of the physicians adopted the clinical pharmacist's advices; medical history checking, medication guidance, medication counseling and pharmaceutical ward round are with relatively high coverage(75.3%, 78.0%, 76.2%, and 73.5%) and satisfaction(77.8%, 81.3%, 79.2%, and 76.1%) among the patients. CONCLUSION: The construction of clinical pharmacy service system in tertiary hospitals in our country is beginning to obtain achievement.