Norikoshi Yu, Uchiyama Makoto, Ibusuki Takako, Nakashima Naoka, Torigoe Erika, Ito Erika, Nagae Mai, Saruwatari Junji, Anraku Makoto
Orange Pharmacy.
Fuji Yamada Pharmacy.
Yakugaku Zasshi. 2020;140(4):585-589. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.19-00189.
Because patients and their families are at a high risk of contracting infectious diseases in hospital as well as pharmacy, a pharmacy containing the waiting rooms separately for infectious diseases and non-infectious diseases is expected to lead them to visit with confidence and receive appropriate drug administration guidance without the risk of infection. In this study, we examined the potential usefulness of having separate waiting rooms by conducting a questionnaire survey on the structure of the pharmacy waiting room and investigating the visiting situation for influenza-infected pediatric patients from a record of the medicines they received. As a result of the questionnaire tabulated from guardians of 385 pediatric patients who first visited a pharmacy with separate waiting rooms, 70% of the pediatric patients concluded that having separate waiting rooms would be satisfactory. In addition, the possible risk of horizontal transmission of influenza was supposed to be reduced in the pharmacy with separate waiting room in comparison with the pharmacies without among 211 pediatric patients who could not identify the influenza source within their daily living areas, such as home and school. Based on these findings, we anticipate the growing availability of the pharmacies having separation type waiting rooms.
由于患者及其家属在医院以及药房感染传染病的风险很高，因此，设有传染病和非传染病单独候诊室的药房有望让他们放心就诊，并在无感染风险的情况下接受适当的用药指导。在本研究中，我们通过对药房候诊室的结构进行问卷调查，并根据流感感染儿科患者所领药品记录调查其就诊情况，来研究设置单独候诊室的潜在益处。对首次前往设有单独候诊室的药房就诊的385名儿科患者的监护人进行问卷调查后发现，70%的儿科患者认为设有单独候诊室会令人满意。此外，在211名无法确定家庭和学校等日常生活区域内流感传染源的儿科患者中，与未设单独候诊室的药房相比，设有单独候诊室的药房中流感水平传播的潜在风险预计会降低。基于这些发现，我们预计设有分隔式候诊室的药房会越来越多。
