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ArticlePharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)2020

T.E.A.M.S.Work: Leveraging Technicians to Enhance ABM Med Sync in Community Pharmacies.

Tamera D Hughes, Lana M Minshew, Stacey Cutrell, Stefanie P Ferreri

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Article in Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tamera D HughesUNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Lana M MinshewUNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Stacey CutrellUNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Stefanie P FerreriUNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The expansion of pharmacy technicians' roles in community pharmacies allows pharmacists the opportunity to focus on providing clinical services to patients. This study explores the tasks pharmacy technicians' perform to support Med Sync programs in community pharmacies. Pharmacy staff members at North Carolina pharmacies with more than fifty percent of their prescription volume being dispensed as part of a Med Sync program were recruited to participate in semi-structured interviews. Inductive coding and summary analysis were used to analyze the interview data. Study participants described pharmacy technicians' roles in identifying patients for marketing and enrollment, reviewing patients' medications list, choosing alignment dates based on patient preference, contacting patients in preparation for dispensing and, lastly, engaging in pickup or delivery of medications. This study highlights technicians' vital role in completing tasks that support Med Sync programs in community pharmacies.

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community pharmacymedication synchronizationpharmacy technicianspharmacy workforce

Identifiers

PMID32230719
PMCPMC7356274
OpenAlexW3013213610

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