Guidelines on Assistive Products Useful in Pharmacy Practice to Optimize and Ensure Medication Use by Individuals With Visual Impairment: An Interdisciplinary Delphi Consensus

IF 2.1 4区 医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Théodora Merenda, Stéphanie Patris
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Abstract

Rationale

Visual impairment represents a significant public health challenge that can affect patients ability to accurately identify medications and access essential information about them. A potential solution to address these difficulties is the utilization of assistive products. Consequently, guidelines have been developed in French for Belgian community pharmacists to enhance the safety of individuals with a visual impairment when utilizing medications.

Aims and Objectives

To build an interdisciplinary consensus on guidelines for the utilization of assistive products in pharmacy practice, with the aim of ensuring the safe administration of medications by individuals with a visual impairment.

Methods

A Delphi survey for consensus building was conducted by a national panel of experts. The interdisciplinary panel was constituted of ophthalmologists with a specialization in low vision, orthoptists, ergotherapists, psychologists, and community pharmacists. The recommendations were encoded in the form of an online questionnaire and the experts were invited to indicate their degree of agreement on a 9-point Likert scale. Descriptive statistics were produced using IBM SPSS 27 software. This process was repeated until a consensus was reached between all the experts.

Results

Four rounds of the Delphi method were necessary to the panel of 10 experts to evaluate the 47 recommendations initially submitted. Ultimately, an introduction to the guidelines and 39 recommendations, grouped into six main categories, were validated.

Conclusion

The consensus process has enabled us to obtain consolidated recommendations and to ensure their relevance, thus facilitating the dissemination of high-quality content to community pharmacists practising their profession in Belgian pharmacies.

辅助产品在药房实践中有用的指导方针,以优化和确保视力障碍患者的药物使用:跨学科德尔菲共识
基本原理视力障碍是一项重大的公共卫生挑战,它会影响患者准确识别药物和获取有关药物的基本信息的能力。解决这些困难的一个潜在解决方案是使用辅助产品。因此,为比利时社区药剂师制定了法语指南,以提高视力障碍患者在使用药物时的安全性。目的和目标建立跨学科共识的指导方针,辅助产品的使用在药房实践,以确保视力障碍的个人用药安全的目的。方法采用德尔菲调查法,在全国专家小组中建立共识。这个跨学科小组由低视力专业的眼科医生、矫形医师、角疗师、心理学家和社区药剂师组成。这些建议以在线问卷的形式编码,专家们被邀请在9分的李克特量表上表明他们的同意程度。描述性统计采用IBM SPSS 27软件进行。这一过程不断重复,直到所有专家达成共识为止。结果由10名专家组成的专家小组对初步提交的47项建议进行了4轮德尔菲法评估。最终,对准则的介绍和分为六个主要类别的39项建议进行了验证。结论共识过程使我们能够获得综合建议,并确保其相关性,从而促进传播高质量的内容,社区药剂师执业他们的专业在比利时药房。
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来源期刊
CiteScore
4.80
自引率
4.20%
发文量
143
审稿时长
3-8 weeks
期刊介绍: The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.
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