New Survey Shows Growth in Pharmacy Services
The Journal of the American Pharmacists Association has just released a new survey showing the influences on the frequency and type of community pharmacy services.
The survey, performed using a cross-sectional national mail survey, polled community pharmacies on the frequency of MTM, immunization, therapy adjustments, medication reconciliation, disease state management, health screening or coaching, complex nonsterile compounding, and point-of-care testing performed at their location.
Results showed that the average community pharmacy performs 3 of the 8 surveyed services, with pharmacy chains and supermarkets offering the most. And as stated in Pharmacy Times, the study “indicates [that] innovativeness, interprofessional collaboration, and technician staffing are associated with the provision of a wide variety of pharmacy services.”