Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the occurrence of medication incidents in Canadian community pharmacies.

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, community pharmacies adapted rapidly to broaden and adjust the services they were providing to patients, while coping with severe pressure on supply chains and constrained social interactions. This study investigates whether these events had an impact on the medication incidents reported by pharmacists. Results indicate that Canadian pharmacies were able to sustain such stress while maintaining comparable safety levels.

Persuasive Technologies and Social Interactions in Professional Environments: Embedded Qualitative Case Study.

Background: Although previous studies have highlighted the impact of interactions on the web in the context of patient-health care professional (HCP) dyads, this paper extends that context to a triad that includes the role of employers and associated settings with social groups.

Objective: This study aims to evaluate how the interactions between individuals and the social use of the platform affect individuals' use of persuasive technology and, in turn, their work environment actions and responses, by implementing a persuasive technology health and wellness platform in a work environment.

Methods: For 8 months, we deployed a persuasive technology platform with different combinations of health-related features and content in 1 embedded case design with 8 fire stations for a small Canadian city (total number of participant firefighters, n=141) assigned to 1 of 2 treatments-interactive or static webpages.