Subtopic Deep Dive
Pharmacist-Patient Communication
Research Guide
What is Pharmacist-Patient Communication?
Pharmacist-patient communication encompasses strategies and interactions between pharmacists and patients to enhance medication counseling, adherence, and health literacy in pharmacy practice.
Studies evaluate training interventions and their impacts on patient behaviors and outcomes. Shah and Chewning (2006) reviewed 155 studies conceptualizing and measuring these interactions (155 citations). McKenney et al. (1973) demonstrated clinical pharmacy services improved hypertension control in 25 patients versus controls (344 citations).
Why It Matters
Effective pharmacist-patient communication boosts medication adherence and reduces errors in chronic disease management. McKenney et al. (1973) showed pharmacist services lowered blood pressure significantly in hypertensive patients (344 citations). Patten et al. (2012) found contact-based education reduced stigma in pharmacy students, improving mental health counseling (156 citations). Shah and Chewning (2006) enabled standardized measurement of communication quality, aiding interprofessional teams (155 citations). In dementia care, Maidment et al. (2017) highlighted pharmacists' role in medication management (93 citations).
Key Research Challenges
Measuring Communication Quality
Standardizing metrics for pharmacist-patient interactions remains inconsistent across studies. Shah and Chewning (2006) identified gaps in conceptual frameworks and validated tools in their review of 155 studies. This hinders comparative effectiveness research.
Reducing Stigma in Counseling
Pharmacy students and practitioners exhibit mental illness stigma affecting patient advice. Patten et al. (2012) showed contact-based education reduced stigma but required scalable training (156 citations). Long-term retention poses ongoing issues.
Interprofessional Team Integration
Pharmacists' communication roles in chronic disease teams face collaboration barriers. Rahayu et al. (2021) noted insufficient team involvement despite benefits for 109-cited studies. Training for seamless interactions is needed.
Essential Papers
The Effect of Clinical Pharmacy Services on Patients with Essential Hypertension
James M. McKenney, Judith M. Slining, H. Henderson et al. · 1973 · Circulation · 344 citations
The effect of clinical services provided by a pharmacist to 25 study patients with essential hypertension was evaluated and compared to the course followed by 25 control hypertensive patients not r...
Effectiveness of contact-based education for reducing mental illness-related stigma in pharmacy students
Scott B. Patten, Alfred J. Rémillard, Leslie Phillips et al. · 2012 · BMC Medical Education · 156 citations
Conceptualizing and measuring pharmacist-patient communication: a review of published studies
Bupendra Shah, Betty Chewning · 2006 · Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy · 155 citations
ASHP Guidelines on Preventing Medication Errors with Antineoplastic Agents
David Köhler, Michael Montello, Barry R. Goldspiel et al. · 2002 · American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy · 120 citations
Journal Article ASHP Guidelines on Preventing Medication Errors with Antineoplastic Agents Get access David R. Kohler, Pharm.D., David R. Kohler, Pharm.D. Search for other works by this author on: ...
Role of Pharmacists in the Interprofessional Care Team for Patients with Chronic Diseases
Susi Afrianti Rahayu, Sunu Widianto, Irma Ruslina Defi et al. · 2021 · Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare · 109 citations
Chronic diseases are a major health problem and cause of death worldwide. Patients with chronic diseases should be managed by an interprofessional care team consisting of general practitioners, med...
Effect of computerisation on the quality and safety of chemotherapy prescription
M. Voeffray, A. Pannatier, Roger Stupp et al. · 2006 · BMJ Quality & Safety · 96 citations
Errors in chemotherapy prescription nearly disappeared after implementation of CPOE. The safety of chemotherapy prescription was markedly improved.
European Society of Clinical Pharmacy definition of the term clinical pharmacy and its relationship to pharmaceutical care: a position paper
Tobias Dreischulte, Bart J. F. van den Bemt, Stéphane Steurbaut · 2022 · International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy · 93 citations
Abstract Many definitions of the term clinical pharmacy exist, but a number of ambiguities remain. In order to clarify the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP) position on what defines clin...
Reading Guide
Foundational Papers
Start with McKenney et al. (1973, 344 citations) for early evidence of pharmacist services impact; then Shah and Chewning (2006, 155 citations) for measurement frameworks; Patten et al. (2012, 156 citations) for education interventions.
Recent Advances
Rahayu et al. (2021, 109 citations) on interprofessional roles; Maidment et al. (2017, 93 citations) on dementia medication management; Dreischulte et al. (2022, 93 citations) on clinical pharmacy definitions.
Core Methods
Core techniques include randomized trials (McKenney 1973), literature reviews (Shah 2006), contact education (Patten 2012), and qualitative interviews (Maidment 2017).
How PapersFlow Helps You Research Pharmacist-Patient Communication
Discover & Search
PapersFlow's Research Agent uses searchPapers and citationGraph to map high-citation works like Shah and Chewning (2006, 155 citations), then findSimilarPapers reveals related adherence studies. exaSearch uncovers training interventions from 250M+ OpenAlex papers on pharmacy counseling.
Analyze & Verify
Analysis Agent applies readPaperContent to extract metrics from McKenney et al. (1973), with verifyResponse (CoVe) checking claims against abstracts and runPythonAnalysis computing adherence effect sizes via pandas. GRADE grading assesses evidence quality for hypertension outcomes.
Synthesize & Write
Synthesis Agent detects gaps in stigma reduction post-Patten et al. (2012), flagging contradictions in team roles from Rahayu et al. (2021). Writing Agent uses latexEditText, latexSyncCitations for Shah (2006), and latexCompile to produce review manuscripts with exportMermaid for communication flow diagrams.
Use Cases
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Research Agent → searchPapers('McKenney hypertension pharmacist') → Analysis Agent → readPaperContent → runPythonAnalysis (pandas effect size calc) → statistical verification output with p-values and confidence intervals.
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Synthesis Agent → gap detection (Patten 2012 stigma) → Writing Agent → latexEditText (intro) → latexSyncCitations (Shah 2006) → latexCompile → compiled PDF with citations and diagrams.
"Find code for simulating pharmacy counseling simulations."
Research Agent → paperExtractUrls (recent communication papers) → paperFindGithubRepo → githubRepoInspect → Code Discovery output with repo links and code snippets for adherence models.
Automated Workflows
Deep Research workflow conducts systematic reviews of 50+ papers on communication training, chaining searchPapers → citationGraph → GRADE grading for structured reports on adherence impacts. DeepScan applies 7-step analysis with CoVe checkpoints to verify Shah and Chewning (2006) metrics. Theorizer generates hypotheses on interprofessional communication from Rahayu et al. (2021) literature.
Frequently Asked Questions
What defines pharmacist-patient communication?
It includes counseling strategies for adherence and health literacy, as reviewed by Shah and Chewning (2006) across 155 studies measuring interaction quality.
What are key methods in this subtopic?
Methods involve intervention trials like McKenney et al. (1973) clinical services for hypertension and contact-based education in Patten et al. (2012) for stigma reduction.
What are foundational papers?
McKenney et al. (1973, 344 citations) showed pharmacist services improved outcomes; Shah and Chewning (2006, 155 citations) standardized measurement.
What open problems exist?
Scalable stigma training retention (Patten 2012) and interprofessional integration (Rahayu 2021) lack long-term studies.
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