A Survey of Drug Information Resources in Alabama Pharmacy Facilities
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Drug Information Resources in Alabama Pharmacy Facilities
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TABLE 1
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bels indicated that Alabama had 1,197 retail/ community and 159 hospitaVmenta1 health pharmacies. Based on this estimate, the total survey return rates for these facilities were 34% and 46%, respectively. AVAILABLE RESOURCES BY ALL PHARMACIES Enumeration of available D1 resources for Alabama pharmacies was one of the major objectives for this study:Table 1 depicts the survey results of the resources in ascending order of availability for all pharmacies. Slightly over 90% of all pharmacies indicated that Drug Facts and Comparisons was available, and 51% indicated that the PDR was available. Micromedex and Mosby's Drug Consult were the least available of the options provided. AVAILABLE RESOURCES BY PHARMACY TYPE Table 2 illustrates survey results for the major drug monograph texts available by pharmacy type. Table 3 also depicts resources by pharmacy type; however, these resources are more by groups of resources (eg, OTC references) rather
310 289 209
51.3 47.8 34.6
209 204
34.6
102 97
33.8 16.9 16.1
73 54 14
121 8.9 2.3
than a specific single text, except for the Drug lnformation Handbook and Micromedex.
RetaiVCommunity Pharmacies. The survey results (Table 2) indicated that Drug Facts and Comparisons had the highest availability among retail/community pharmacies, and slightly less than half (44.2%)indicated that they had the PDR. Of the 480 retail/community pharmacies that responded to the survey, half (50.8%) indicated that they had OTC references available (see Table 3). HospitaVMental Health Pharmacies. Drug Facts and Comparisons also had the highest (95.9%) availability (Table 2) among hospital/ mental health pharmacies; medicaVpharmacy journals were second with 60.8%, and the Drug Information Handbook (58.1%) had the highest availabilityamong grouped references (Table 3). Other Pharmacies. The other pharmacy types group included compounding pharmacies, long-term care facilities, clinics, hospices, nuclear agencies, home infusion agencies, and so on. Again, Drug Facts and Comparisons (Table 2 )
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Schrimsher, Freeman, Kendrach
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TABLE 2
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R - b DrugFoctsond
Rd/bnrmitr (n = 480)
Hospitd/Msrtd(I = 74)
Yesln) x Yes
433 90.2
71 95.9
No (nl
47 9.8
3 4.1
Yes (nl % Yes
212 44.2
64 86.5
No (nl
%No
268 55.8
10 13.5
Yes (nl % Yes
70 14.6
No (nl % Mo
410 85.4
16 21.5 58 78.5
Yes (nl % Yes
13 2.7
49 66.2
No (nl
467 97.3
25 33.8
Mosby'sDrugc4nwrlt Yes(n)
x Yes
5 1.o
No (nl % No
475 99.0
6 8.1 68 91.9
Comporisans
%No
PDR*
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%No
had the highest availability (92%),and the PDR was second (68%).For grouped resources (Table 3), medicaVpharma
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