Affiliation:
1. University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy
2. UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Abstract
Abstract
Introduction: The increase of people with complex chronic health conditions is stressing the U.S. healthcare delivery system. Community pharmacies play a role in ensuring patients’ safe medication use for chronic care management, but their efforts are undermined by volatile work demands and other system barriers.
Methods: This study seeks to conceptualize, design, implement, and test a MedSafeMapTM for the community pharmacy setting to enhance pharmacists’ and technicians’ abilities to either avoid, or to quickly identify and recover from, medication errors before patient safety is endangered.
Discussion: The MedSafeMap is an innovative approach that will be used by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to better navigate the complex tasks in the pharmacy, and to facilitate communication with both patients and clinicians, while safely providing medications to complex patients with chronic health conditions.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC