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- Title
Pharmacists' Willingness to Provide Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Services and the Needs to Support COVID-19 Testing, Management, and Prevention.
- Authors
Nguyen, Elaine; Owens, Christopher T.; Daniels, Tayler; Boyle, Jeremy; Robinson, Renee F.
- Abstract
The need for increased testing is pivotal in the response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Recently, through the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, pharmacists were given the ability to order and administer COVID-19 tests, giving them a better opportunity to engage in the pandemic response across the nation as well as in Idaho. This survey sought to determine Idaho pharmacists' willingness to provide different COVID-19 related services, assess needed resources to provide such services, and identify and prioritize other unmet community needs. We conducted a nine-question, cross-sectional survey distributed to pharmacists with addresses located in Idaho. All questions in the survey were optional and focused on pharmacist's willingness to provide services, what resources and additional training they would need, difficulty with 90-day prescriptions, and solicited additional feedback using an open-ended question. A total of 229 responses were received, representing all areas of pharmacy practice, with approximately half from community settings. The majority of respondents (70%) were willing to provide COVID-19 testing. Adequate staffing, changes to workflow, and the need for billing and clear reimbursement mechanisms were most frequently cited as barriers to contributing to the COVID-19 response. In summary, we found that pharmacists are very willing to help during this crisis, but their involvement may be better facilitated with the removal of barriers.
- Subjects
IDAHO; OCCUPATIONAL roles; SOCIAL support; ATTITUDES of medical personnel; CROSS-sectional method; PHARMACISTS; MEDICAL emergencies; EMERGENCY management; WORKFLOW; HEALTH insurance reimbursement; COVID-19 testing; NEEDS assessment; WORKING hours; COVID-19 pandemic; MEDICAL needs assessment; DISEASE management
- Publication
Journal of Community Health, 2021, Vol 46, Issue 4, p752
- ISSN
0094-5145
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10900-020-00946-1