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Pharmacists as immunizers, their pharmacies and immunization services: A survey of Ontario community pharmacists.
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- Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of pharmacists regarding vaccinations against influenza and pneumococci - a systematic review.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Pooled it
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- Investigating how homeopaths and chiropractors navigate patient requests for vaccination information in Ontario, Canada: a qualitative study.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Pharmacists' Willingness to Offer Vaccination Services: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Pharmacists' perceptions of the new pharmaceutical vaccination service in Romania: a comprehensive first two-years evaluation.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
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- Healthcare provider awareness, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding the role of pharmacists as immunizers.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2022Article
- Distributing Publicly-Funded Influenza Vaccine-Community Pharmacies' Perspectives on Acquiring Vaccines from Public Health and from Private Distributors in Ontario, Canada.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Time for harmonization: Pharmacists as immunizers across Canadian jurisdictions.Canadian pharmacists journal : CPJ = Revue des pharmaciens du Canada : RPCArticle
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Abstract
backgroundTo improve patient access to the influenza vaccine in Ontario, pharmacists have been authorized to administer the vaccine since 2012. A survey was conducted to describe pharmacist immunizers, their pharmacies and immunization services.
methodsOntario community pharmacists completed an anonymous online survey regarding influenza immunization. Descriptive, comparative and multivariate statistics were used to analyze data on pharmacists' personal demographics, current workplace characteristics, immunization certification status and past and anticipated experience vaccinating.
resultsOf the 4307 community pharmacists contacted, 18.4% ( DISCUSSION: Ontario community pharmacists demonstrate strong engagement with this expanded scope and there is further capacity for immunization service provision through engaging rural pharmacies, addition of other vaccines and leveraging the positive relationship with public health. Patients and the public benefit from easy access to the service and the additional in-store and external promotion of influenza vaccination that is provided by pharmacists and pharmacies.
conclusionThese provincial benchmarking data provide direction for maintaining and expanding community pharmacist-provided influenza immunization.
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