Situational factors as predictors of pharmaceutical care in a community setting: an application of the adaptive decision-making model.

Abstract

Various situational factors are perceived to affect the level of pharmaceutical care (PC) delivery. Despite numerous discussions in the literature stating its importance, a literature search showed a lack of studies evaluating this relationship. The objective of this study was to determine the affect of the presence of situational factors, based on the adaptive decision making (ADM) model, on the level of pharmaceutical care delivered by pharmacists in a community setting. Pharmacists in a community setting with access to hypertensive patients were selected for study participation. An exploratory, cross-sectional study was used to acquire pharmacist self-perception of the level of PC delivered (dependent variable) in the state of Ohio.