COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS’ PERCEPTION OF THEIR
CLINICAL PHARMACY SERVICE FUNCTION, A STUDY
FROM TURKEY
OZLEM NAZAN ERDOGAN1*, MEHMET SARPER ERDOGAN2,
ONUR GUNAY3, SERDAR ERKUS4, TUMER ULUS2
1Kocaeli University, College of Hereke Omer Ismet Uzunyol, Marshall
Campus, Korfez, Kocaeli,Turkey
2Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Public
Health, Istanbul Turkey
3Sirnak Provincial Health Directorate, Sirnak, Turkey (working at the
Bingol Province Health Directorate when the survey was conducted)
4Amasya Province Health Directorate, Department of Medicine and
Pharmacy, Amasya, Turkey
*corresponding author: nerdogan@kocaeli.edu.tr
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Abstract:

The aim of this study was to describe the perceptions and attitudes of community pharmacists with respect to clinical issues in community pharmacy services in Turkish provinces of Bingol and Amasya.
A survey was conducted to understand the self-perceptions of community
pharmacists regarding clinical pharmacy services in the community pharmacy setting. The survey was done between December 2007 and January 2008 in Bingol and Amasya provinces in Turkey. The topics most patients were advised on by the pharmacists were drugs 73.7 %, therapy 36.8 % and the physician 31.6 %. There is a statistically significant difference between the community pharmacists of Bingol and Amasya about preventing and minimizing drug and illness interactions (Mann-Whitney U, p=0.05). Community pharmacists in these two provinces perceive themselves as serving in a clinical consultancy role and advise on drug therapy.

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