PMID- 16913388
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060913
LR  - 20191110
IS  - 1544-3191 (Print)
IS  - 1086-5802 (Linking)
VI  - 46
IP  - 4
DP  - 2006 Jul-Aug
TI  - Utility of a questionnaire to measure physician-pharmacist collaborative 
      relationships.
PG  - 453-8
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To examine the sensitivity and criterion validity of the 14-item 
      Physician/Pharmacist Collaboration Index (PPCI). DESIGN: Substudy of an 
      unblinded, randomized trial of pharmacist interventions with patients with 
      uncontrolled hypertension. SETTING: 6 intervention and 6 control pharmacies in 
      eastern Iowa. PARTICIPANTS: 25 community pharmacists. INTERVENTIONS: Pharmacists 
      completed the PPCI at baseline and at a 3-month follow-up for each patient's 
      physician. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Respondents' perceptions about their 
      relationships with each patient's physicians as measured through scores in three 
      domains, Trustworthiness (TW; score range, 6-42), Role Specification (RS, 5-35), 
      Relationship Initiation (RI, 3-21), and compared using nonparametric tests. 
      RESULTS: Pharmacists' mean scores of their relations with 38 different physicians 
      (54 completed PPCIs) in the intervention group were 33.8 for TW, 23.2 for RS, and 
      16.4 for RI at baseline. At 3 months, the scores had improved significantly to 
      35.5, 25.0, and 17.4, respectively. Pharmacists' scores for 43 different 
      physicians (49 completed PPCIs) in the control group did not change significantly 
      between baseline and 3 months (TW, 30.7 at each time point; RS, 20.3 and 19.7, 
      respectively; RI, 14.3 at each time point). CONCLUSION: Improved scores in the 
      intervention group suggest that collaborative relations improved between the 
      physician and pharmacist during the 3-month study, while no such improvement was 
      found in the control group. Since the intervention was designed to promote 
      collaboration between pharmacists and physicians, these results support the PPCI 
      as a tool to measure pharmacist-physician collaboration and could be used by 
      pharmacists to benchmark collaborative relationships. Additional research is 
      needed to corroborate the results of this study.
FAU - Zillich, Alan J
AU  - Zillich AJ
AD  - School of Pharmacy, Purdue University, Department of Pharmacy Practice, W. 
      Lafayette, IN 46202, USA. azillich@purdue.edu
FAU - Milchak, Jessica L
AU  - Milchak JL
FAU - Carter, Barry L
AU  - Carter BL
FAU - Doucette, William R
AU  - Doucette WR
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - J Am Pharm Assoc (2003)
JT  - Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA
JID - 101176252
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Disease Management
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Hypertension/drug therapy
MH  - *Interprofessional Relations
MH  - Male
MH  - Pharmacists/*psychology
MH  - Physicians/*psychology
MH  - Professional Role/psychology
MH  - *Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Trust/psychology
EDAT- 2006/08/18 09:00
MHDA- 2006/09/14 09:00
CRDT- 2006/08/18 09:00
PHST- 2006/08/18 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/09/14 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/08/18 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S1544-3191(15)31511-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1331/154434506778073592 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2006 Jul-Aug;46(4):453-8. doi: 
      10.1331/154434506778073592.