Klinische Pharmakologie und Biopharmazeutik

Abstrakt

A Focus-Group Study Examined the Pharmacists' Perceptions of a Diabetes Risk Assessment Service and Analytical Quality Control in Community Pharmacies

Fengzhen Cord

Background:Healthcare services similar as diabetes threat- assessment are decreasingly common in community apothecaries. Knowledge of community druggists’ gests of similar services could ease the perpetration of a largerscale service.

Objects: To explore Norwegian druggists’ experience of a diabetes threat- assessment service, including logical quality control, in a community- drugstore setting. Styles Three focus- group interviews were conducted in Norway between August and September 2017. Methodical textbook condensation was used, an logical approach well suited for thematic content analysis across interview data. Fourteen druggists took part, signed from a design offering a diabetes threat- assessment service, including measures of Gyrated hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c), in Norwegian community apothecaries.

Results: The druggists emphasized the significance of using their knowledge and chops to promote good health. They considered offering this service as being compatible with their part as druggists. As communication is an essential part of their work, the druggists estimated their communication chops as being good. Nonetheless, how to communicate the immolation of this service was seen as a challenge, for case recruiting actors and communicating in an accessible and professional way. Addition of the whole drugstore staff as a platoon was endured as an important success factor for perpetration of a threat- assessment service. Analytical quality control was perceived as being a natural part of their job and a manageable task.

Conclusions: Offering a diabetes threat- assessment service is in line with the way a named group of Norwegian community druggists perceived their professional part. still, they were uncomfortable recruiting actors, and expressed the want for further support from the drugstore chain. Our results add performance of logical quality control as part of the ongoing development involving expansion of druggists' professional part. Unborn perpetration studies may also profit from giving both the drugstore staff and guests sufficient time to familiarize themselves with the new service before measuring goods.