Abstract
Pharmacy pharmacists play important roles in the community comprehensive care system that supports seamless medical care throughout the community by collaborating with hospital pharmacists and other medical professionals. Sharing information such as patients’ medication status at the time of admission and discharge is one of the important aspects of collaboration, and may reduce the burden of medical professionals and an improvement in the quality of medical care involved as team medicine. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the provision of information by pharmacy pharmacists on the medication status of patients prior to hospitalization would help reduce the burden on hospital pharmacists and facilitate their work. A questionnaire survey was conducted on hospital pharmacists regarding the current status of management of hospitalized patients’ dowry medicines and the usefulness of information provided by pharmacy pharmacists, and the results were subjected to CS analysis. Providing patient information of pharmacy pharmacists at the time of admission and discharge contributes to reducing the burden on hospital pharmacists. On the other hands, documents provided by pharmacy pharmacists were used only 20% by hospital pharmacists and thought less reliable than the medication handbook. To solve this problem, it is necessary to promote “family pharmacists/pharmacies” that monitor patients’ medication information in a centralized and continuous grasp and to establish a system that enables the smooth sharing of this information between pharmacy pharmacists and hospital pharmacists.
