Abstract
P-579: Relationship between physician knowledge of hypertension and their collaboration with clinical pharmacists
American journal of hypertension, Vol.18(S4), pp.218A-219A
05/2005
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2005.03.596
Abstract
Many family medicine or internal medicine residency programs have clinical pharmacists who assist with education and patient care. These physician/pharmacist teams frequently provide chronic care and improve safety. We have validated an instrument to measure physician collaboration with pharmacists and it includes questions like: “I work with this pharmacist to plan goals of drug therapy,” “Decision making for our patients is coordinated between this pharmacist and me,” and “There is cooperation between this pharmacist and myself in managing drug therapy.” We have also developed a knowledge questionnaire to examine knowledge with JNC-7. The knowledge questionnaire had 35 questions and 5 domains. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between physician knowledge of hypertension and their degree of collaboration with pharmacists. There were 55 physicians from 7 different clinics who completed the knowledge questionnaire. The overall correct responses were 68% (range 43–94%). The correct responses in selected knowledge domains were treatment: 65% (35–94%), monitoring: 76% (33–100%) and adverse reactions: 65% (0–100%). There was generally a negative correlation between physician knowledge and collaboration with clinical pharmacists suggesting that physicians with high knowledge may not collaborate as much. This finding occurred for all questions in the knowledge questionnaire (−0.032), or within the treatment (−0.069) or monitoring (−0.180) domains, though none of these were statistically significant. Interestingly, physician's who scored higher on the adverse reaction domain had higher levels of collaboration with pharmacists (0.313, p=0.0299). This pilot study suggests that physicians who collaborate more with clinical pharmacists in their office have higher knowledge scores for adverse drug reactions which may relate to the frequency of teaching related to adverse effects. Additional research should be conducted in larger physician populations to evaluate these relationships. Zillich AJ, McDonough RP, Carter BL, Doucette WR. Influential characteristics of physician/pharmacist collaborative relationships. Ann Pharmacother 2004;38:764–70.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- P-579: Relationship between physician knowledge of hypertension and their collaboration with clinical pharmacists
- Creators
- Barry L. CarterWilliam R. DoucetteAllan J. ZillichGeorge BergusArthur Hartz
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Publication Details
- American journal of hypertension, Vol.18(S4), pp.218A-219A
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2005.03.596
- ISSN
- 0895-7061
- eISSN
- 1879-1905
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2005
- Academic Unit
- Pharmacy Practice and Science; Family Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984366424602771
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