Timothewos, Sewit (2014) Interprofessional Collaboration between Physicians and Pharmacists in Selected Public Hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Interprofessional Collaboration between Physicians and Pharmacists in Public Hospitals of Addis Ababa. Sewit Timothewos, Addis Ababa University, 2014 Since recent times there has been an expansion in the horizon of pharmacy practice. To optimize the contribution of pharmacists to their extended role, pharmacist and physicians need to learn to work in a collaborative manner. Hence, assessment of current level of interaction and factors affecting their working relationships need to be investigated. To this effect, the present study employed hospital based descriptive cross sectional study design, with qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The study was conducted from June-November 2013 in two selected public hospitals of Addis Ababa. Key informant Interview (KI) and the Pharmacist Physician Collaborative Index (PPCI) was used to measure the degree of collaboration. The study population were pharmacists and physicians working in RDMH and TASH. The study had a response rate of 76%. The mean PPCI score for the respondents were 60.4 and 67.5 for physicians in TASH and RDMH, and 62 and 70.5 for pharmacists in TASH and RDMH, respectively. The professionals jointly worked in DTC and morning sessions and wish that these activities would be further strengthened. The pharmacists were making more of an effort to collaborate than the physicians and the professionals in RDMH were getting more support from the hospital administration in favor of collaboration compared to TASH. Interprofessional collaboration in RDMH was found to be equal to (from the pharmacists perspective) or greater than (from physicians perspective) that of TASH. And it is recommended that two way and open communication between physicians and pharmacists should be facilitated so that the role each professional should play in team work would be known.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Interprofessional Collaboration, Pharmacist Physician Collaborative Index, Collaboration, pharmacist, physician, professional relationships |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2018 10:28 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2018 10:28 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7987 |
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