Farmaceuters syn på förskrivningsrätt för farmaceuter i Sverige - En pilotstudie

Sammanfattning: Background: The topic of pharmacist prescribing in Sweden hasn’t been widely talked about or implemented like in the UK, New Zealand or Canada. The implementation of pharmacist prescribing has shown both benefits and drawbacks in different settings over the years.  Aim: The aim of this study was to develop a questionnaire to explore pharmacists’ views on pharmacist prescribing in Sweden and their perception of potential facilitators and barriers with pharmacist prescribing.  Methods: This study was divided into 3 parts to develop the questionnaire. The first part consisted of semi-structured interviews with pharmacists with diverse knowledge and work experience in the field. The questionnaire was tested by pharmacy students in the second part. In the last part of this study, the questionnaire was tested on pharmacists with diverse knowledge and work experience. The two latter steps focused on the validity of the questionnaire and were the pilot studies in this study. Results: The most frequently altered questions had to do with education and different situations the respondents would like to use pharmacist prescribing. The results from the interviews indicated that pharmacists have different opinions about pharmacist prescribing and the different type of pharmacist prescribing that should be implemented in Sweden.  Conclusion: The participants found most of the questions in the questionnaire easy to interpret. However certain wordings were considered unclear to some extent. Thoughts about the type of prescribing rights and where pharmacist prescribing should be adopted are still not definite.