Relax Pharmacy Regulations to Help with COVID-19 Testing and Treatment

Broughel, James; Yatsyshina, Yuliya

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3564463

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“…Easing operational barriers for pharmacists working in any health facility will help in their effective engagement in COVID-19 response ( 85 ). Drug administrative authorities can allow a grace period in the renewal of licensures during emergency period.…”

Section: Role Of Pharmacists In Previous Outbreaksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pharmacists can give full play to their professional expertise; analyze the current situation rationally; test, treat, and immunize; formulate telehealth policies expeditiously; and guarantee medication safety and rational use of drugs ( 43 , 85 , 88 ). In restructuring existing health services to respond to the current public health crisis, it is important that governments, public health bodies, and policy makers review existing services and make full use of any unrealized potential among pharmacists working in various sectors.…”

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Multilevel Engagements of Pharmacists During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Way Forward

Mallhi

Liaqat

Abid³

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was first reported in China in December 2019 which was later declared to be a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO). This virus proved to be very contagious resulting in life-threatening respiratory intricacies posing overall public health and governance challenges. Amid the coronavirus pandemic and the unprecedented increase in healthcare demands, only inventive and adaptive practice among healthcare professionals is the need of the hour. Pharmacy services are an important mainstay in the public health and have considerable potential to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Pharmacists working in several localities and health facilities are linked to patients either directly or indirectly. They can act swiftly in public health response such as drafting professional service guidance to pharmacists working in various healthcare facilities, ensuring effective medicine supply system, monitoring and resolving drug shortage issues, establishing and promoting remote pharmacy services, counseling the public on infection prevention basics, educating about proper use of personal protective equipment, discouraging self-medication, participating in clinical trials, small-scale manufacturing of sanitizers and disinfectants, busting the prevailing myths, and conducting drug evaluation and active surveillance. These interventions will help ease unprecedented burden on healthcare facilities during the ongoing pandemic and eventually will add value to patients and the healthcare system. The current manuscript accentuates the potential roles and activities that pharmacists can initiate in various healthcare facilities to help in relieving pressure on the overwhelmed healthcare system. The information and suggestions offered in this review could help in the restructuring of existing pharmacy services by governments, public health bodies, and policy makers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, this manuscript will underscore any unrealized potential among pharmacists working in various sectors including community, hospital, industry, and drug regulatory authorities.

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Section: Role Of Pharmacists In Previous Outbreaksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conclusive Remarksmentioning

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Multilevel Engagements of Pharmacists During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Way Forward

Mallhi

Liaqat

Abid³

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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“…Pharmacies are ubiquitous and well positioned to expand access to COVID-19 testing. Many people feel more comfortable walking into a pharmacy than a local hospital or outpatient clinic, and many live closer to a pharmacy than a healthcare facility [16,17], with over 90% of Americans living within five miles of a pharmacy [16]. Pharmacies have a workforce skilled to administer tests [4].…”

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Selecting pharmacies for COVID-19 testing to ensure access

Risanger

Singh

Morton

et al. 2021

Health Care Manag Sci

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“…Many states have recently changed laws or issued executive orders to allow pharmacists to perform certain services to address either COVID-19 directly or to augment health care capacity more generally. 51 Just as the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic created momentum for expanded pharmacy-based vaccines, COVID-19 is likely to have long-lasting impacts on pharmacy-based testing and prescribing. The framework presented in this article may help stakeholders seize this momentum.…”

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Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process: State “Scope of Practice” Priorities for Action

Adams

Weaver

2020

Ann Pharmacother

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To fully engage in the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process, pharmacists must be able to (1) participate in a Collaborative Practice Agreement, (2) order and interpret laboratory tests, (3) prescribe certain medications, (4) adapt medications, (5) administer medications, and (6) effectively delegate tasks to support staff. Each of these activities is dependent on state scope of practice laws, but these laws are not binary. Various state-level restrictions allow us to view these activities on a continuum from more restrictive to less restrictive. This continuum will allow pharmacy and public health stakeholders to identify priorities for action in their states.

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Relax Pharmacy Regulations to Help with COVID-19 Testing and Treatment

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Multilevel Engagements of Pharmacists During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Way Forward

Multilevel Engagements of Pharmacists During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Way Forward

Selecting pharmacies for COVID-19 testing to ensure access

Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process: State “Scope of Practice” Priorities for Action

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