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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Knowledge, Perceptions, and Readiness of Telepharmacy among Hospital Pharmacists in Saudi Arabia.

Nehad J Ahmed, Ziyad S Almalki, Asmaa H Alsawadi, Abdulmohsen A Alturki, Abdulaziz H Bakarman, Alwaleed M Almuaddi, Saeed M Alshahrani, Meshari B Alanazi, Ahmed M Alshehri, Ahmed A Albassam and 4 more

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nehad J AhmedDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-4215-6225
Ziyad S AlmalkiDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-1618-4142
Asmaa H AlsawadiDepartment of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Almaarefa University, Riyadh 13713, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulmohsen A AlturkiDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulaziz H BakarmanDepartment of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Almaarefa University, Riyadh 13713, Saudi Arabia.
Alwaleed M AlmuaddiDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
Saeed M AlshahraniDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
Meshari B AlanaziDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed M AlshehriDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-6150-2341
Ahmed A AlbassamDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah K AlahmariDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-1047-6913
Ghada M AlemDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
Saad A AldosariDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmad A AlamerDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-2091-1376
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University · SAAlmaarefa University

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Telepharmacy is a technology-based service that provides promoted services such as counseling, medication administration and compounding, drug therapy monitoring, and prescription review. It is unclear whether hospital pharmacists possess the necessary knowledge, attitudes, and willingness to practice telepharmacy. The current study sought to investigate Saudi Arabian hospital pharmacists' understanding, attitudes, and level of preparedness for telepharmacy services. A total of 411 pharmacists responded to the survey. Only 43.33% of the respondents agreed that telepharmacy is available in Saudi Arabia and 36.67% of the respondents agreed that patients in rural areas can have more medication access and information via telepharmacy. Only 29.33% of pharmacists agreed that telepharmacy improves patient medication adherence, and about 34.00% of the pharmacists agreed that telepharmacy saves patients money and time by eliminating the need for them to travel to healthcare facilities. This research found that hospital pharmacists were unsure of their level of knowledge, their attitude toward telepharmacy, and their willingness to incorporate it into their future pharmacy practices. To ensure that tomorrow's pharmacists have the skills they need to provide telepharmacy services, telepharmacy practice models must be incorporated into the educational programs that prepare them.

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hospital pharmacistsknowledgeperceptionreadinesstelepharmacy

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PMID37107921
PMCPMC10137432
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