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Area of Science:

  • Pharmacy Practice and Patient Outcomes
  • Health Services Research
  • Medication Safety

Background:

  • Evaluating community pharmacies is crucial for patient care.
  • Quality measures are increasingly used to assess healthcare providers.
  • Understanding patient perspectives on quality measures is essential for their effective implementation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate patients' perceptions of the value and utilization of quality measures in the evaluation and selection of community pharmacies.
  • To identify which types of quality measures are most important to patients.

Main Methods:

  • A mixed-methods approach combining focus groups and surveys was employed.
  • Semistructured focus groups were conducted in urban and rural settings in the Midwestern USA.
  • Thirty-four adults with chronic illnesses using community pharmacies participated.

Main Results:

  • Medication safety measures, such as drug-drug interaction checks, were highly valued by patients for evaluating pharmacies.
  • Patients rated the utility of quality measures for evaluating pharmacies highly, with a mean score of 4.88 for drug-drug interactions.
  • While hesitant to use quality measures for choosing a pharmacy, patients might consider them when relocating or after a negative experience.

Conclusions:

  • Patients perceive significant value in quality measures for assessing community pharmacies, particularly those related to medication safety.
  • Quality measures are more likely to influence pharmacy selection in specific circumstances rather than prompting a routine switch.
  • The findings highlight the importance of medication safety in patient-centered pharmacy evaluation.