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Interprofessional collaboration between pharmacists and community health workers: a scoping review.
Int J Equity Health
January 2025
School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Introduction: Community health workers (CHWs) help bridge the cultural gap between health services and the communities they serve. CHWs work with physicians, nurses and social workers, but little is known about their collaboration with pharmacists. This scoping review aims to describe the interprofessional collaboration between CHWs and pharmacists, the types of interventions they deliver and CHWs' and pharmacists' specific roles within these interventions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth professionals' willingness to share responsibility and strengthen interprofessional collaboration: a cross-sectional survey.
BMC Med Educ
January 2025
Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Background: Doctors' unwillingness to share responsibility acts as a major barrier to interprofessional collaboration (IPC). Educating both doctors and allied health professionals in taking on or relinquishing responsibility could enhance IPC. Yet there is no evidence that these educational efforts increase IPC willingness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA realist evaluation to explain and understand the role of paramedics in primary care.
BMC Med
January 2025
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Background: In response to the unsustainable workload and workforce crises in primary care, paramedics (with their generalist clinical background acquired from ambulance service experience) are increasingly employed in primary care. However, the specific contribution paramedics can offer to the primary care workforce has not been distinctly outlined. We used realist approaches to understand the ways in which paramedics impact (or not) the primary care workforce.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHome Healthcare Medication Safety risks among older adults with chronic diseases: a qualitative study.
BMC Nurs
January 2025
Department of Community Health and Geriatric Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Background: Older adults receiving home care often face significant safety risks related to medication management due to their chronic diseases and complex health needs. Despite the increasing reliance on home healthcare services, the specific factors contributing to medication safety risks in this demographic remain inadequately explored.
Objective/aim: This study aims to explore the key factors involved in medication safety risks among older adults with chronic diseases receiving home healthcare in Iran.
Community Perspectives on Optimizing Community Health Volunteer Roles for HIV Prevention Services in Kenya and Uganda.
AIDS Patient Care STDS
January 2025
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, Oakland, California, USA.
Community health workers (CHWs) play a significant role in supporting health services delivery in communities with few trained health care providers. There has been limited research on ways to optimize the role of CHWs in HIV prevention service delivery. This study explored CHWs' experiences with offering HIV prevention services [HIV testing and HIV pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP and PEP)] during three pilot studies in rural communities in Kenya and Uganda, which aimed to increase biomedical HIV prevention coverage via a structured patient-centered HIV prevention delivery model.
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