Intervention costs include both pharmacist's and physician's time for review, communication, prescription, training and quality checks.
These computer systems have been designed specifically for use in primary care and consist of a set of specific modules (e.g. medical, electronic communication, prescription, financial).
Throughout these studies is a recurring belief among patients that they receive inadequate information and communication around prescriptions, and Alami et al. describe this as leading to suspicion of drugs [ 24].
Fear of side effects is reported [ 24, 32] and the presence of co-morbidities has also been described as contributing to patient hesitancy to take medication, in addition, again to suboptimal communication around prescriptions [ 34].
Our results showed that there was a significant difference in the positive response rate in two dimensions ('Staffing, Work Pressure and Pace' and 'Communication About Prescriptions Across Shifts', p<0.05) for senior pharmacists, junior pharmacists and the pharmacy intern.
Using Cronbach's α, all subscales had acceptable levels of reliability, which varied from 0.84 for 'Communication About Prescriptions Across Shifts' to 0.44 for 'Teamwork', with the exception of the dimension 'Communication About Mistakes' which had the lowest value of 0.17.
Patient characteristics such as gender, race/ethnicity, income, and age were found to be related to patient-physician communication regarding prescription drug costs and cost-related non-adherence.
The purpose of this report is to examine drug cost communication levels, prescription drug switching by physicians, and self-reported medication non-adherence among Medicare Part D beneficiaries with diabetes, and to assess how these vary across such characteristics.
Here promotion is defined as any type of direct communication regarding prescription medications between pharmaceutical companies and either doctors or patients, including company controlled educational events, the giving of gifts and the provision of drug samples.
Communication errors, where prescriptions were rated as ambiguous or unclear, were significantly higher in the control arm compared with the intervention arm.
3 The National Health Service (NHS) Connecting for Health has defined ePrescribing as: "The utilisation of electronic systems to facilitate and enhance the communication of a prescription or medicine order, aiding the choice, administration and supply of a medicine through knowledge and decision support and providing a robust audit trail for the entire medicines use process".
