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. 2022 Jul 11:9:23743735221112631.
doi: 10.1177/23743735221112631. eCollection 2022.

Patient Satisfaction of Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Services

Mostafa A S Ali  1   2 , Palanisamy Amirthalingam  1 , Yasser Alatawi  1 , Ahmed Aljabri  3
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Patient Satisfaction of Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Services

Mostafa A S Ali et al. J Patient Exp. .

Abstract

The Ministry of Health (MOH) recently developed the Health Sector Transformation Program (HTSP) to focus on patient satisfaction, safety, and care. This study explored patient satisfaction with outpatient care services. A semi-structured questionnaire was designed to collect the data of patient satisfaction with pharmacy care services through face-to face interviews of participants and over the internet using an electronic format of the same questionnaire (web-based survey). A total of 508 participants responded of whom, 51.8% were male and 83% were below 46 years old. The average scores of domains 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 were 4.51, 4.11, 4.30, 3.70, 3.57, 3.82, 3.63, and 4.15, respectively. The general evaluation of pharmacy services demonstrated that respondents were very satisfied (245; 48.2%), satisfied (143; 28%), and willing to recommend the pharmacy to their families (380; 76.4%). There was no statistically significant difference in the overall satisfaction with pharmacy services among the 2 hospitals (P > .05). Most respondents were satisfied with outpatient care pharmacy services. More efforts are needed to improve the service of following up on patients' adherence by the pharmacists.

Keywords: outpatient pharmacy; patients satisfaction; pharmacy care.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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