Pharmacists' Willingness to Offer Vaccination Services: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Pharmacy-based vaccination (PBV) services increase coverage and enhance access to lifesaving vaccines. This systematic review assessed the proportion of pharmacists willing to offer PBV services. PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE and Scopus electronic databases were searched from inception to identify relevant literature.

The development and validation of a global advanced development framework for the pharmacy workforce: a four-stage multi-methods approach.

Background: Studies have indicated that a generalisable and translatable global framework is a useful tool for supporting career progression and recognising advanced practice.

Aim: To develop and validate a global advanced competency development framework as a tool to advance the pharmacy profession globally.

Method: A four-stage multi-methods approach was adopted.

A national analysis of the pharmacy workforce in Indonesia.

Background: Pharmacists play a fundamental role in healthcare systems and achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through quality primary healthcare service provision. While the World Health Organization (WHO) forecasts a global shortage of health workforce by 2030, mainly affecting low- and middle-income nations (LMICs), limited published literature is found regarding pharmacy workforce capacity in LMICs, including Indonesia. This paper aims to analyse pharmacists' capacity in Indonesia to identify emerging workforce planning gaps for future workforce planning and policies in Indonesia.

Knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals on prescribing errors.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals on prescribing errors.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study employing a questionnaire that consisted of 12 items on knowledge and 10 items on healthcare professionals' attitudes toward errors in prescribing process. The participants responded to the questionnaire with a 5-Likert scale of agreement.

A country-level national needs assessment of the Indonesian pharmacy workforce.

Background: Conducting a systematic country-level workforce needs-assessment is a way to develop coherent strategic and justifiable workforce planning.

Objective(s): This article describes a country-level needs-assessment process using a systematic approach (via the FIP Development Goals (FIP DGs) workforce element) as an analytical framework. The needs-assessment aimed to prioritise gaps toward transforming the pharmacy workforce as a prelude to practice and pharmaceutical services reform in Indonesia.

The development, validity and applicability to practice of pharmacy-related competency frameworks: A systematic review.

Background: Global reforms in the education of health workers has culminated in the implementation of competency-based education and training (CBET). In line with the CBET model, competency frameworks are now commonplace in the health professions. In pharmacy, these frameworks are used to regulate career entry, benchmark standards of practice and facilitate expertise development.

The effectiveness and impact on performance of pharmacy-related competency development frameworks: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Competency frameworks for education, training and development are widely used in the health professions, including pharmacy. Published studies suggest that competency frameworks have an impact on professional performance. Professional performance that is consistent with up-to-date knowledge and skills influences health care quality and patient safety.

Indonesian students' participation in an interprofessional learning workshop.

Interprofessional learning activities, such as workshops allow students to learn from, with and about each other. This study assessed the impact on Indonesian health students' attitudes towards interprofessional education (IPE) from participating in a workshop on medication safety. The students attended a two-day IPE workshop on medication safety.

Nature and frequency of medication errors in a geriatric ward: an Indonesian experience.

Purpose: To determine the nature and frequency of medication errors during medication delivery processes in a public teaching hospital geriatric ward in Bali, Indonesia.

Methods: A 20-week prospective study on medication errors occurring during the medication delivery process was conducted in a geriatric ward in a public teaching hospital in Bali, Indonesia. Participants selected were inpatients aged more than 60 years.

Amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity.

Aims: A number of factors have been hypothesized to increase the risk of amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity (AIPT). This study aimed to confirm these risk factors and determine whether a cohort of tertiary hospital patients diagnosed with AIPT demonstrated comparable characteristics.

Methods: Phase I of this study involved compilation of a database of adverse reactions to amiodarone reported to the Australian and US drug agencies, and identification of risk factors for AIPT using logistic regression analysis.