University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2010 Nov 10;74(9):168. doi: 10.5688/aj7409168.
To investigate the pharmacists' role in providing targeted therapies to patients and its implications for pharmacy education.
Nine pharmacy faculty members, 12 clinical pharmacists, and 4 oncologists from across Australia and New Zealand participated in semistructured interviews, which were analysed using the framework method.
Education about targeted therapies was seen as being important, although content about pharmacodiagnostic tests was taught inconsistently among 7 universities. Issues including funding, clinical and diagnostic validity of tests, and time taken for turnaround of tests were perceived as impediments to the acceptance by clinicians of the utility of pharmacodiagnostic tests.
Pharmacists may be the ideal professionals to interpret test results and provide counselling for patients to assist them in compliance with targeted cancer therapies. Pharmacy education in cancer therapies is critical to training pharmacists who can assist patients in the correct use of these therapies.
调查药师在为患者提供靶向治疗方面的作用及其对药学教育的意义。
来自澳大利亚和新西兰的 9 名药学教师、12 名临床药师和 4 名肿瘤学家参与了半结构化访谈，采用框架方法进行分析。
尽管 7 所大学的教学内容不一致，但教育靶向治疗被认为是重要的。一些问题，如资金、检测的临床和诊断有效性以及检测结果的周转时间，被认为是临床医生接受药物诊断检测的效用的障碍。
药师可能是解读检测结果并为患者提供咨询以帮助他们遵守靶向癌症治疗的理想专业人员。癌症治疗方面的药学教育对于培训能够帮助患者正确使用这些治疗方法的药师至关重要。
