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Achsah Philip1, Mallory Gessner-Wharton1, Patrick Birney1
1Achsah Philip, Pharm.D., M.S., BCPS, is Clinical Informatics Pharmacist, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston; at the time of writing she was Postgraduate Year 2 (PGY2)-M.S. in Health System Pharmacy Administration Resident, Harris Health System, Houston, TX. Mallory Gessner-Wharton, Pharm.D., M.S., BCPS, is Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Kingwood Medical Center, Kingwood, TX. Patrick Birney, Pharm.D., M.S., is PGY2-M.S. in Health System Pharmacy Administration Resident, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston. John Blee, Pharm.D., M.S., BCPS, is Pharmacy Manager, Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, Sugar Land, TX. Avani Desai, Pharm.D., M.S., is PGY2-M.S. in Health System Pharmacy Administration Resident, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston. Christy Gorbach, Pharm.D., M.S., is Pharmacy Supervisor, Houston Methodist West Hospital. Rusol Karralli, Pharm.D., M.S., is Manager, 340B Education and Compliance Support, Apexus, Washington, DC; at the time of writing he was PGY2-M.S. in Health System Pharmacy Administration Resident, Memorial Hermann System Pharmacy, Houston. Dirk Lorimer, Pharm.D., M.S., is PGY2-M.S. in Health System Pharmacy Administration Resident, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston. Kyle Munch, Pharm.D., M.S., is PGY2-M.S. in Health System Pharmacy Administration Resident, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston. Gift Nweke, Pharm.D., M.S., is Corporate Manager of Medication Use and Pharmacoeconomic Analysis, Novant Health, Winston-Salem, NC. Shreya Parekh, Pharm.D., M.S., is Senior Clinical Applications Analyst, Memorial Hermann Health System, Houston. Monica Puebla, Pharm.D., M.H.A., M.B.A., BCPS, is Pharmacy Coordinator, Houston Methodist Hospital. Rodney Cox, Pharm.D., M.S., is Pharmacy Operations Manager, Memorial City Medical Center, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Rosharon, TX. Elizabeth Paige Pitman, Pharm.D., M.B.A., is Assistant Dean for Student and Professional Affairs; and Kevin W. Garey, Pharm.D., M.S., i
Purpose:
Results of an initiative to increase participation in a survey on hospital pharmacy practices are reported.
Methods:
In an initiative led by pharmacy residents at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, a task force was created to boost the rate of response to the Hospital-Assessment Survey (HSA), an online benchmarking tool developed as part of the ASHP-sponsored Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI). Under the guidance of leaders from ASHP's Texas affiliate and state health-system pharmacy leaders, an 11-member team of residents targeted Texas hospitals that had not responded to the HSA as of December 2013 and used phone and e-mail methods to encourage survey participation. Data obtained from newly responding institutions were aggregated with previously collected data on Texas facilities and compared with national data.
Results:
During the 11-week initiative, 66 new HSA responses were received from Texas hospitals, raising the total number of respondents to 89 and boosting the overall participation rate from 4.3% to 16.7% (p <0.001). Analysis of the survey data indicated broad similarities among small and large Texas hospitals with regard to six optimal practice characteristics. Pharmacy practice models and characteristics in Texas overall were largely consistent with national statistics.
Conclusion:
The involvement of the PPMI task force was associated with a substantial increase in the survey response rate. The survey results indicated that, with a few exceptions, practice models and the use of optimal practices were similar at Texas hospitals of various sizes and between Texas hospitals overall and sampled hospitals nationwide.
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