Al-Diery Tarik, Hussain Farhat Naz
College of Pharmacy, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
J Pharm Policy Pract. 2025 May 30;18(1):2511152. doi: 10.1080/20523211.2025.2511152. eCollection 2025.
Person-centred care is widely recognised as a cornerstone of collaborative practice, which emphasises the patient at the centre of the larger interprofessional team. However, emerging research continues to highlight gaps in the pharmacy professions' ability to practice person-centred care, owning to ambiguities in its understandings, as well as a risk-averse culture that positions pharmacists as gatekeepers of medication information rather than as proactive collaborators who engage and co-design care with patients. To meet the evolving needs of the healthcare sector, pharmacists must embed person-centred care as a defining element of their professional identity. This requires strengthening foundational education and training, fostering self-reflective and self-awareness practice, and rethinking organisational processes through targeted advocacy that affirms the pharmacist's integral role within multidisciplinary teams. By doing so, pharmacy can more effectively contribute to optimising health outcomes and delivering truly person-centred care.
以患者为中心的护理被广泛认为是协作实践的基石，它强调患者是更大的跨专业团队的核心。然而，新出现的研究不断凸显药学专业在实施以患者为中心的护理方面存在的差距，这归因于对其理解的模糊性，以及一种规避风险的文化，这种文化将药剂师定位为药物信息的把关人，而不是与患者互动并共同设计护理的积极合作者。为了满足医疗保健部门不断变化的需求，药剂师必须将以患者为中心的护理作为其职业身份的一个决定性要素。这需要加强基础教育和培训，培养自我反思和自我意识的实践，并通过有针对性的宣传来重新思考组织流程，以肯定药剂师在多学科团队中的不可或缺的作用。通过这样做，药学可以更有效地促进优化健康结果并提供真正以患者为中心的护理。
