McPherson Timothy B, Fontane Patrick E, Jackson Kelsey D, Martin Kathleen S, Berry Tricia, Chereson Rasma, Bilger Rhonda
St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis, Mo, USA.
J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2006 Sep-Oct;46(5):568-73. doi: 10.1331/1544-3191.46.5.568.mcpherson.
To determine the extent of prescription compounding in independent community pharmacies and identify factors that influence the decision of independent pharmacists whether to provide compounding services.
Cross-sectional survey.
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa.
370 pharmacists in charge.
Anonymous questionnaire mailed in January 2005.
Percentage of pharmacies that provide compounding; percentage of dispensed prescriptions that require compounding; factors contributing to decisions whether to provide compounding service.
Overall, 94% of respondent pharmacies provided compounding services at the time of this survey. Prescriptions that required compounding represented less than 1% of total prescriptions for the majority (58.3%) of respondents. The main reasons for the decision to provide compounding service were wanting to provide full pharmaceutical care to patients (73.8% of compounders) and responding to requests by prescribers (48.7%). Pharmacies that did not provide compounding service cited the main reason as not receiving prescriptions that required compounding (63.6% of noncompounders).
Compounding remains a component of pharmacy practice in the independent community setting. Prescriptions that required compounding represented 2.3% of all prescriptions dispensed by compounding pharmacies.
确定独立社区药房中处方调配的程度，并找出影响独立药剂师决定是否提供调配服务的因素。
横断面调查。
伊利诺伊州、密苏里州、堪萨斯州和爱荷华州。
370名负责药剂师。
2005年1月邮寄匿名问卷。
提供调配服务的药房百分比；需要调配的已配处方百分比；影响是否提供调配服务决策的因素。
总体而言，在本次调查时，94%的受访药房提供调配服务。对于大多数（58.3%）受访者来说，需要调配的处方占总处方不到1%。决定提供调配服务的主要原因是希望为患者提供全面的药学服务（73.8%的调配药剂师）以及回应开方者的要求（48.7%）。不提供调配服务的药房将主要原因归结为未收到需要调配的处方（63.6%的非调配药剂师）。
在独立社区环境中，调配仍是药学实践的一部分。需要调配的处方占调配药房所配所有处方的2.3%。
