Attitude survey on hospital pharmacists and community pharmacy pharmacists about information cooperation with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stamp in NAGASAKI.

Abstract

The dose adjustment of medicines is important for renal excretion-type drugs in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. However, community pharmacy pharmacists, who cannot look at the laboratory values of CKD patients, depend on information from patient interviews about kidney function decline. A system for cooperation over the CKD information of patients is established in Nagasaki Prefecture, in which community pharmacy pharmacists will be given patient CKD information with the affixing of a CKD stamp to the medicine notebook of the patient by a kidney specialist.We performed an attitude survey on information cooperation with a CKD stamp on hospital pharmacists and community pharmacy pharmacists. Most hospital pharmacists and community pharmacy pharmacists answered positively to the idea of taking part in the cooperation system of CKD information with a CKD stamp. There were positive responses about the intention to cooperate in the information cooperation system with a CKD stamp. The communication tool of a CKD stamp was judged to be effective for the appropriate use of drugs and medicines by the hospital pharmacists and community pharmacy pharmacists.