BACKGROUND
The use of drug information is increasing as the role of pharmacists expands. However, pharmacists spend a huge amount of time collecting drug information, and there has not been any drug information resource website that aims to improve the efficiency of community pharmacists with regards to drug information (DI) operations.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of the drug information resources website (SAGASU-DI).
METHODS
SAGASU-DI articles were created based on inquiries to clinical pharmacists. The usage statistics of the SAGASU-DI were monitored using Google Analytics between May and July 2021. In addition, a pop-up questionnaire was used to evaluate the usefulness of the SAGASU-DI in answering the questions of viewers.
RESULTS
Statistics showed that our website had 25,447 users and 33,000 page views, with 29 seconds on average. Visitors accessed the website through desktop (51.9%) and mobile (44.3%) systems. Community pharmacists accounted for 40.2% of the visitors. The pop-up questionnaire showed that 23.2% of the viewers were satisfied with our website, and 1.5% of the viewers were not. Although 65.1% of the viewers refused to answer the questionnaire, the average percentage of viewers who were satisfied with the site was 94.1%.
CONCLUSIONS
The SAGASU-DI was found to be a valuable resource website for DI services, mainly for community pharmacists.