Bhuvan, KC, Alrasheedy, Alian A., Leggat, Peter A., Ibrahim, Mohamed Izham Mohamed, Christopher, Christina Malini, Sapkota, Binaya, and Shrestha, Sunil (2023) Types and outcomes of pharmacist-managed travel health services: A systematic review. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 51. 102494.

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Abstract

Background and aim: Pharmacists have an important role in providing travel health services and medications to travelers. However, given the limited literature on this topic, the aim of this study is to systematically review the types and outcomes of pharmacist-managed travel health services.

Methods: A comprehensive literature search was performed in four electronic databases, namely Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed and ProQuest to identify studies published in English from 1999 to July 2022. The inclusion criteria included the studies that reported an experience of providing dedicated travel health services by pharmacists and reported the outcomes and/or evaluation of these travel health services.

Results: Nine studies were identified from the literature and included in the review. The pharmacists have provided a wide range of general and specialized travel health services including pre-travel risk assessment, routine and travel-related vaccination service, prescribing or recommending medications for travel-related illnesses, counseling and travel health advice. Overall, 94–100% of the patients were satisfied or very satisfied with pharmacist-managed travel health services. In addition, a good acceptance rate of pharmacist recommendations for vaccines and travel-related mediations was reported with most studies reporting an overall acceptance rate of ≥75% (acceptance rate range: 48%–94.2%). In addition, high rates of acceptance of other nonpharmacological advices were noted.

Conclusion: Pharmacists with training in travel medicine have successfully provided a wide range of general and specialized travel health services. Most travelers were highly satisfied with the pharmacy-based travel health services and accepted the pharmacist recommendations.

Item ID:	76831
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1873-0442
Keywords:	Community pharmacist, Pharmacist prescribing, Pharmacy services, Travel health, Travel medicine, Tourism, Vaccines
Copyright Information:	© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Date Deposited:	21 Nov 2022 03:42
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