Background: Under Ontario's Public Hospitals Act, the scope of professional practice of hospital pharmacists is approved by each hospital's medical advisory committee. Some Ontario hospitals have adopted policies or medical directives related to prescription modification, allowing pharmacists to broadly adapt, discontinue, hold, or renew prescriptions as part of their clinical scope of practice.
Objectives: The primary objective of this study was to describe Ontario hospital pharmacists' perception of their readiness to independently modify prescriptions.