Evaluating health outcomes following a pharmacist-provided comprehensive pretravel health clinic in a supermarket pharmacy

Tran, Deanna; Gatewood, Sharon B.S.; Moczygemba, Leticia R.; Stanley, Dennis D.; Goode, Jean‐Venable R.

doi:10.1331/japha.2015.14140

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“…Patient acceptance rates in Tran et al ranged from 10% (for Japanese encephalitis) to 100% (for yellow fever) for travel related vaccines but routine vaccine acceptance rates ranged from 0% to 31%. 25 Hess et al had similar acceptance rates of travel related vaccines ranging from 67 % (for polio) to 97% (for yellow fever). Patients cited self-perceived low risk of contracting illnesses or were only focused on the travel related vaccines such as yellow fever or typhoid and not about routine illnesses such as influenza or measles, mumps, rubella.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Both Hess et al and Tran et al reported high patient satisfaction rates 96% and 94% respectively with a pharmacist-run travel health clinic. 22,25 Durham et al compared recommendations between trained pharmacists at a pharmacistrun travel clinic in a University student health clinic versus primary care providers (PCP) without specialized training. Of the 513 travelers reviewed, pharmacists were more likely to follow evidence-based guidelines in regards to prescribing antibiotics for travelers' diarrhea when indicated (96% vs 50%), prescribing appropriate antimalarial medications (98% vs. 81%) and ordering more vaccines for patients (mean 2.77 vs. 2.31).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Patients cited self-perceived low risk of contracting illnesses or were only focused on the travel related vaccines such as yellow fever or typhoid and not about routine illnesses such as influenza or measles, mumps, rubella. 22,25 Durham et al demonstrated that pharmacists with specialty training and CTH ® credentials were able to provide expertise care for their patients in regards to travel health. 24 All studies demonstrated that pharmacists are integral in educating patients to maintain their health while traveling abroad.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services in the United States

Hurley‐Kim¹,

Goad²,

Seed³

et al. 2018

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Pharmacists and pharmacies are highly visible and accessible to the public and have long been regarded as a source for immunization services in the United States. As international travel continues to increase and grow in popularity in this country, there is a pressing need for expanded access to preventative health services including routine and travel vaccinations and medications for prophylaxis or self-treatment of conditions that may be acquired overseas. In the United States, the scope of pharmacy practice continues to expand and incorporate these preventable health services to varying degrees on a state-by-state level. As a result, pharmacists can help to increase access to and awareness of the need for these services to insure that patients remain healthy while traveling abroad and that they do not acquire a travel-related disease while on their trip. For those pharmacists interested in starting a travel health service, considerations should be undertaken that ensures that they have the necessary training, education, and skill set in order to provide this specialty level of care and that their practice setting is optimally designed to facilitate this service. Outcomes from studies that have evaluated pharmacy-based travel health services are positive, which further supports the role of the pharmacist in this setting. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to highlight United States pharmacy laws and regulations, pharmacist training, travel clinic considerations, and patient care outcomes from pharmacy-based travel health services.

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confidence: 92%

Section: Outcomes Of Pharmacist Provided Care In Travel Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Outcomes Of Pharmacist Provided Care In Travel Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services in the United States

Hurley‐Kim¹,

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Seed³

et al. 2018

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“…There have been accumulating reports to indicate clients' positive experience with travel clinic service provided by pharmacists. Pharmacists providing services in pre-travel health clinics can have substantial impact on the health of patients traveling internationally [30]. Having proper training and certification in travel medicine such as ISTM's CTH®, pharmacist-run travel clinic can provide consistent evidence-based care and improve patient compliance compared to primary care providers without special training [31].…”

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Travel Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Among Community Pharmacists in Japan

Sato¹

2019

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(1) Background: Travel medicine practice has not been a part of practice in the community pharmacies in Japan. However, it’s getting more common for pharmacists to run travel clinic in North America. With ongoing globalization, Japanese pharmacists might be practicing travel medicine in future. This descriptive study is to examine the current knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Japanese community pharmacists. (2) Methods: Invitation to the study was sent to all pharmacies or corporates listed on Nippon Pharmacist Association member list plus one another large size pharmacy chain that was not member of NPhA. Community pharmacists working under those companies received a weblink to the survey. The survey was conducted from June to July 2017 by online questionnaire. (3) Results: The self-declared knowledge level of infectious diseases as well as travel vaccinations was generally low. The frequency of correct answer of the antibiotic resistance in South East Asia was 48.5%. Knowledge level of qunine resistance to Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Ghana and Nicaragua was very low. (4) Conclusions: Japanese community pharmacists are not familiar with travel related infectious diseases and vaccines used in travel medicine. The knowledge on the antibiotic resistance in traveler’s diarrhea and malaria prophylaxis was all low that is consistent with low degree of exposure to travel health questions from patients in daily practice and low percentage of intention to earn travel health certificates.

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“…Given extensive postgraduate training and experience in practice, pharmacists can positively impact health outcomes among travellers [7][8][9][10][11].…”

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Development and Testing of a Clinical Practice Framework for Pharmacists to Assess Patients’ Travel-Related Risks: The 5W Approach to Travel Risk Identification

Fernandes¹,

Houle²

2019

Pharmacy

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Objective: To assist with identifying patients who may be managed by pharmacists without additional travel medicine training, versus those who may benefit from referral, we developed and validated a clinical practice framework. This framework was then piloted in eight pharmacies in Ontario, Canada, from March to August 2019. Methods: A panel of experts, comprised of physicians and pharmacists from Ontario, Canada, holding a Certificate in Travel HealthTM from the International Society of Travel Medicine was recruited. This panel participated electronically in the development of the framework in three stages: (1) Sharing their current approach when performing information gathering and assessing risk in a traveling patient; (2) judging of items collated from all panellists on the basis of how essential they are to a risk assessment; and (3) validation of items deemed essential by the panel using the Item and Average Content Validity Index. The framework was then released to community pharmacies, where pharmacists that self-identified as beginners to travel medicine completed pre- and post-test phase surveys to determine the utility of the framework. Key Findings: A total of 64 items for consideration were deemed essential enough to proceed to content validation, organized into 5 ‘W’ domains: Who, What, Where, When, and Why. Each item was ranked by the experts according to its relevancy, resulting in an Average-Content Validity Index of 0.91. The resulting framework was titled “The 5W Approach to Travel Risk Identification.” This clinical practice framework is the first published assessment tool for travel medicine tailored for pharmacy’s scope of practice that has been content validated. Pharmacists reported that the framework is simple to use and provides structure for interactions with travelling patients. However, it may not be as beneficial for those with a higher level of travel medicine expertise than the average pharmacist. Conclusion: The 5W Approach tool allows pharmacists inexperienced in travel medicine to collect information when required to use their professional judgement when assessing traveling patients as either high-risk (requiring a referral to a travel medicine specialist) or low-risk. With the aim of supporting pharmacists to be more confident in caring for traveling patients and increasing their involvement in travel medicine, future research will test this framework for feasibility in Canadian community pharmacy practice.

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Evaluating health outcomes following a pharmacist-provided comprehensive pretravel health clinic in a supermarket pharmacy

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services in the United States

Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services in the United States

Travel Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Among Community Pharmacists in Japan

Development and Testing of a Clinical Practice Framework for Pharmacists to Assess Patients’ Travel-Related Risks: The 5W Approach to Travel Risk Identification

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