病棟薬剤業務による医師・看護師の業務負担軽減の定量的評価

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The subjective and qualitative survey reported that ward-based clinical pharmacy practices were reported to be rated highly by physicians and nurses. However, no reports have quantitatively evaluated the reduction of their workload from the viewpoint of task-shifting to pharmacists from other medical professionals. In this study, we conducted a questionnaire survey of physicians and nurses working in wards receiving the pharmacy practices service in Keio University Hospital. Survey items include the reduction in the workload of physicians and nurses and subjective ratings regarding the performance of pharmacy practices. The ward-based pharmacy practices (5.9 hours/day, average for a ward) were estimated to be equivalent to the workloads of 3.1 and 2.6 hours/day for a physician and nurse, respectively, adding up to 36.1 hours of their workload per ward. More than 80％ of the responders positively rated the performance of pharmacy practices, except for sterile admixture. This is the first study to evaluate the quantitative contribution of ward-based pharmacy practices on task-shifting from physicians and nurses.