Table 2.
The structure of the surveys
| Addressee | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital pharmacies | Community pharmacies | |||||||||
| Theme of section | Number of questions per section | |||||||||
| oq | q | cq | t | oq | q | cq | t | |||
| 1. | General and sociodemographic questions | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 12 | |
| 2. | General questions about the new legal requirements (e.g. current barriers to implementation) | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 3. | Regular involvement of pharmaceutical staff in clinical processes, including discharge management | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | na | na | na | na | |
| 4. | Medication information transfer | |||||||||
| Medication lists | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Patient consultation | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Discharge summaries | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 5. | Continuous medication supply | |||||||||
| Discharge prescriptions | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | ||
| Dispensing medication upon discharge | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | na | na | na | na | ||
| 6. | Potential for improvement of discharge processes | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| total | 58 | 31 | ||||||||
oq = obligatory question which had to be answered by every respondent; q = question which could be answered by every respondent; cq = conditional question which was only displayed/asked if applicable according to previous response patterns; of note, some conditional questions were classified as obligatory; t = total per section