Journal article
Practitioner activities in patient education and drug therapy monitoring for community dwelling elderly patients
Patient education and counseling, Vol.57(2), pp.204-210
2005
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2004.06.001
PMID: 15911194
Abstract
We compared the frequency of performance of three patient education and three drug therapy monitoring activities across practitioner types and assessed the influence of practitioner characteristics, practice setting, and health care environment on performance of these activities. A mail survey was sent to a random sample of 1300 practitioners in a Midwestern state. Numbers of elderly patients for whom the practitioner performed each of the activities were the dependent variables. Independent variables for the multiple regressions were measures of practitioner characteristics, practice setting, and health care environment. Based on 320 usable responses, prescribers were more likely than pharmacists to perform three of the activities. Minutes per patient contact was positively associated with two of the monitoring activities. Other practitioners in a practice affected the number of patients for whom five activities were performed. Practitioners interested in improving the medication use process for ambulatory elderly patients need to consider multidisciplinary strategies.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Practitioner activities in patient education and drug therapy monitoring for community dwelling elderly patients
- Creators
- William R. Doucette - University of IowaTara N. Andersen - Des Moines University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Patient education and counseling, Vol.57(2), pp.204-210
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ireland Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.pec.2004.06.001
- PMID
- 15911194
- ISSN
- 0738-3991
- eISSN
- 1873-5134
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2005
- Academic Unit
- Pharmacy Practice and Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984366035102771
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