Objectives: Medication reconciliation is widely promoted by international health authorities. Its expansion requires human resources, which are limited and unequally distributed among health care facilities. Recent international studies support the involvement of pharmacy technician in the medication reconciliation process but his role remains unstructured in France. We aimed to assess pharmacy technicians' opinions and willingness to be involved in the medication reconciliation process expansion and to identify the levers and barriers of the project.
Methods: A field study was conducted among health facilities of our territory hospital group. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with different pharmacy technicians. Data were analyzed using a qualitative thematic analysis approach.
Results: Overall, 12 pharmacy technicians from 5 hospitals were interviewed and almost all assumed their rightful place in the medication reconciliation process (n=11), with a view to revaluating tasks. For all pharmacy technicians, the main barriers to participate in medication reconciliation were the lack of time and training. The spread of a "patient culture", the supervision by pharmacists, the desire to be part of the care team in the ward and additional training requests were major levers of change.
Conclusions: Pharmacy technicians' role in expanding medication reconciliation process is legitimate and must be standardized in France. The deployment of the project requires to be formalized within a territory and should consider and develop local organisations.
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