ReviewExpert opinion on drug safety2022
Defining and enhancing collaboration between community pharmacists and primary care providers to improve medication safety.
Review in Expert opinion on drug safety, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Causes of medication errors in community pharmacies: A meta-ethnography and systematic review.PloS one · 2026Pooled it
- Factors contributing to medication safety incidents observed by community pharmacists - a content analysis of incident reports.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2026Article
- Adaptive professionalism among rural primary care pharmacists: A qualitative study of stunting prevention practice in eastern Indonesia.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2026Article
- Guideline Concordance and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Community Pharmacy Management of Suspected Pediatric Acute Otitis Media: A Simulated Patient Study in Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- How direct healthcare professional communications are operationalised by general practitioners and community pharmacists in Ireland: a national cross sectional study.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2026Article
- Improving patient care: communication channel between health centres and community pharmacies through the electronic prescribing application.Farmaceuticos comunitarios · 2026Article
- Who are the healthcare professionals involved in interprofessional team meetings in French multidisciplinary primary care centres? A quantitative analysis of eight centres.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- Home medication review and drug-related problems in patients with chronic diseases at primary health centers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A cross-sectional multicenter study.Belitung nursing journal · 2026Article
- Towards sustainable pharmacy practice: Community pharmacists' experiences with medicine waste, reuse and disposal.PloS one · 2026Article
- Safety-I Versus Safety-II: A Mixed-Methods Study Revealing the Imbalance of Approaches in Primary Care Medication Safety.Journal of patient safety · 2025Article
- Enhancing the Role of Community Pharmacists in Medication Safety: A Qualitative Study of Voices from the Frontline.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Managing adherence, exposure, and toxicity in oral anticancer therapies.Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences · 2025Review
- Pharmacovigilance in the Community: A Special-Interest Group of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance.Drug safety · 2025Article
- Identifying Current Practices and Areas for Improvement in Medication Management During Care Transition Through an Interprofessional Collaboration Framework.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
- Engaging Community Pharmacies in Promoting Outpatient Medication Safety - Identifying and Prioritizing Research Needs by Modified Nominal Group Technique.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Article
- What should patients learn? Co-designing patient education to improve medication safety, professional-patient communication, and partnership.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Assessing patient work system factors for medication management during transition of care among older adults: an observational study.BMJ quality & safety · 2024Observational
- Deprescribing NSAIDs: The Potential Role of Community Pharmacists.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Patient Partnership Tools to Support Medication Safety in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Stepped Wedge Clinical Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Proceedings of the International Ambulatory Drug Safety Symposium: Munich, Germany, June 2023.Drug safety · 2024Article
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9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
introductionOver 4 billion prescriptions are dispensed each year to patients in the United States, with the number of prescriptions continuing to increase. There is a growing recognition of pharmacists' potential in improving medication safety in community settings, in collaboration with primary care providers (PCPs). However, the nature of collaboration has not been well defined, and barriers and strategies are not articulated. AREA COVERED: For this narrative review, published studies were retrieved from PubMed between January 2000 and December 2020. Search terms included "patient safety," "medication safety," "collaboration," "primary care physician," and "community pharmacy." Resulting articles were categorized as follows: defining collaboration, types of collaboration, and barriers and solutions to collaboration. EXPERT OPINION: It is important to understand the factors within a community pharmacy setting that limit or facilitate community pharmacists' participation in medication safety activities. Strategies such as medication review are a common form of collaboration. Barriers to collaboration include misconceptions regarding roles and differences in access to clinical information and community pharmacy practice variability. Future recommendations include increasing training and utilization of pharmacists/PCP teams, increasing community pharmacists' practice in emerging roles, and expanding the community pharmacist role in transitions of care from the hospital to the community.
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