Abstract:
Background: Managing warfarin therapy can be challenging and a multidisciplinary approach to achieve optimal outcomes can be beneficial. Internationally, extended roles for pharmacists have involved collaborative prescribing privileges. Aim: To explore the clinical utility and capacity of pharmacists to undertake prescribing functions in anticoagulation management in the hospital setting. Methods: Pharmacists were recruited from a large Sydney teaching hospital. A questionnaire was used to simulate a pharmacist prescribing function and to explore their opinion of the usefulness of prescribing and their confidence to undertake such roles. The appropriateness of pharmacists¿ prescribing decisions was evaluated.
