Table 2.
Physicians’ comfort with pharmacists
| Pharmacists’ duties |
N (%) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncomfortable | Moderately comfortable | Comfortable | No response | |
| Providing patient education | 21 (10) | 100 (49) | 82 (40) | 2 (1) |
| Suggesting use of nonprescription medications | 50 (24) | 79 (39) | 73 (36) | 3 (2) |
| Suggesting use of certain prescription medications to patients | 113 (55) | 50 (24) | 40 (20) | 2 (1) |
| Suggesting use of prescription medication to physicians | 64 (31) | 75 (37) | 52 (25) | 14 (7) |
| Treating minor illnesses | 99 (48) | 60 (29) | 40 (20) | 6 (3) |
| Detecting and preventing prescription errors | 6 (3) | 48 (23) | 151 (44) | – |
| Designing and monitoring pharmacotherapeutic regimens | 36 (18) | 76 (37) | 91 (44) | 2 (1) |
| Monitoring outcomes of pharmacotherapeutic regimens and plans | 25 (12) | 88 (43) | 85 (42) | 7 (3) |