title: Pharmacy patrons 'awareness of pharmacists' education and routine patient care responsibilities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the similarities between pharmacists' and pharmacy patrons' views of pharmacists' roles and to explore the extent to which persons actually see pharmacists assuming certain roles.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional survey was administered to pharmacists and patients who were filling prescriptions or seeking nonprescription medications in 9 community pharmacies in Morgantown, West Virginia. The survey assessed 11 routine patient care services. Main outcome measures include opinions of pharmacists and patients about responsibility for providing 11 routine care services and the extent to which these services are provided.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Pharmacists and patients had similar opinions about services that pharmacists should provide for 7 of the 11 services evaluated. For the other 4 items for which opinions were divergent, the mean scores for the extent to which pharmacists provide these services indicated that pharmacists do not always provide these services.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pharmacy patrons might not attribute certain patient-related functions to pharmacists because pharmacists do not frequently perform these routine care-related services in actual practice. This article is open to POST-PUBLICATION REVIEW. Registered readers (see "For Readers") may comment by clicking on ABSTRACT on the issue's contents page.
authors.affiliation: West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, Morgantown, USA. Ife.Adeleye@cookchildrens.org
authors.forename: Ifemayowa
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Oyelami-Adeleye
authors.forename: Marie A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Abate
authors.forename: Mathew L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Blommel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003157:Community Pharmacy Services; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004512:Education, Pharmacy; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs; D005791:Patient Care / Q000379:methods*; D010594:Pharmacies; D010595:Pharmacists; D010604:Pharmacy; D055553:Prescription Drugs; D055656:Prescriptions; D024382:Professional Role; D014903:West Virginia; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D004366:Nonprescription Drugs; D055553:Prescription Drugs