A Survey on Current Activities and Issues of Pharmacists at Facilities Calculating Fees for the Implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Ehime

Yu INAMI; Shinichi WATANABE; Soichiro TANABE; Mamoru TANAKA; Takashige ASAKAWA

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A Survey on Current Activities and Issues of Pharmacists at Facilities Calculating Fees for the Implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Ehime

VernacularTitle:愛媛県下の抗菌薬適正使用支援加算算定施設における薬剤師の活動内容と課題に関する現状調査
Author: Yu INAMI ¹ ; Shinichi WATANABE ² ; Soichiro TANABE ¹ ; Mamoru TANAKA ³ ; Takashige ASAKAWA ⁴
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1. Department of Pharmacy, Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital
2. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Matsuyama University
3. Division of Clinical Pharmacy, Ehime University Hospital
4. Department of Pharmacy, Imabari Medical Association Shimin Hospital
Keywords: fees for the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship; antimicrobial stewardship team (AST); pharmacist; full-time
From:Japanese Journal of Social Pharmacy 2023;42(1):26-32
CountryJapan
Language:Japanese
Abstract: Although the fees for the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship (AS addition) were newly established in the 2018 revision of medical fees, more detailed activities and issues of pharmacists at facilities calculating AS addition have not been clarified so far. Therefore, to understand the current status of AS activities and problems, we conducted a questionnaire survey of facilities that calculate the additional fee for infection prevention measures 1 and investigated whether there are differences in AS activities between facilities where pharmacists are full-time employees and facilities where non-pharmacists are full-time employees. The results showed that the number of antimicrobial agents used by full-time pharmacists was larger than that by non-pharmacists. In addition, the frequency of AS was lower for non-full-time workers than for full-time workers, with most full-time workers performing AS every day, while non-full-time workers performing AS two to three days a week. In addition, non-full-time workers lacked human resources and work time, and did not have sufficient work materials. The survey revealed that AS activities’ current status and problems differ between full-time and non-full-time employees.