Developing and piloting a communication assessment tool assessing patient perspectives on communication with pharmacists (CAT-Pharm).

Background: Effective communication strategies in health care help to enhance patient empowerment and improve clinical outcomes.

Objective: Adapt the original Communication Assessment (CAT) instrument for the pharmacist profession (CAT-Pharm) and to test its validity and reliability in two different settings.

Setting: Five hospital pharmacies in Italy and five community pharmacies in Malta.