{
  "abstract": "Background and Importance Training programmes for professionals are essential for quality healthcare.Aim and Objectives To describe the development of a multidisciplinary telepharmacy training programme (MTTP) and evaluate its results.Material and Methods MTTP was designed. Multidisciplinary team was composed of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and nurses. Three-phase professional training programme was designed: 1) training a reference pharmacist in telepharmacy, 2) training three other professionals to maintain continuous activity, 3) training as many professionals as possible through theoretical and practical sessions. Knowledge questionnaires (eight questions) were administered before and after the theoretical-practical sessions. Increase in professionals’ knowledge of telepharmacy was analysed using results of questionnaires with Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Patients included in telepharmacy service had clinically stable chronic disease treated for >3 months, adequate tolerance to treatment, adherence >90%, and limited mobility. Pharmacist collected information from patients‘ electronic medical records on a worksheet. Following this document a week later, patients were contacted by telephone to perform the process of dispensing and informed delivery of medication at a distance (DIDM distance). After DIDMdistance, patients included in telepharmacy service were able to collect their treatments at outpatient centres. Worksheet data: patients, drugs, prescribing medical service, interventions. Results of MTTP were assessed based on number and type of interventions performed from 1/1/2024 to 31/12/2024.Results Twelve professionals were included in MTTP. Average score on professional questionnaires before theoretical-practical sessions was 2.72/8 points. Average score on questionnaires after sessions was 6.54/8 points. A statistically significant increase in telepharmacy knowledge was observed with theoretical-practical sessions (Wilcoxon signed-rank test p=0.0057). MTTP provided assistance to 538 patients. The most frequently dispensed drugs were: adalimumab (20.60%) and etanercept (12.40%). The most common prescribing medical services were: internal medicine (37.60%) and dermatology (17.70%). Healthcare professionals performed a total of 322 interventions. Types of interventions: promoting new medical assessments (37.3%), information on medication adherence (20.8%), closer pharmacotherapeutic monitoring due to risk of treatment ineffectiveness (12.1%), intervention related to adverse reactions (11.2%) and others (18.6%).Conclusion and Relevance MTTP enabled a gradual inclusion of professionals and improved their theoretical and practical telepharmacy knowledge. MTTP allowed professionals to perform a considerable number of interventions, which facilitated medical and pharmacotherapeutic monitoring of patients, adequate adherence and drug tolerance.Conflict of Interest No conflict of interest",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Hospital Universitario Puerto Real, Pharmacy, Puerto Real, Spain"
      ],
      "name": "MD Gil-Sierra"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Hospital Universitario Puerto Real, Pharmacy, Puerto Real, Spain"
      ],
      "name": "MDP Briceño-Casado"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Hospital Universitario Puerto Real, Pharmacy, Puerto Real, Spain"
      ],
      "name": "G Cano-Martínez"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Hospital Universitario Puerto Real, Pharmacy, Puerto Real, Spain"
      ],
      "name": "Á Ritoré-Hidalgo"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Hospital Universitario Puerto Real, Pharmacy, Puerto Real, Spain"
      ],
      "name": "E Rios-Sanchez"
    }
  ],
  "title": "4CPS-146 Results of telepharmacy training programme for professionals",
  "uid": "ab93b94e-f1db-526b-8dc9-f5aebcc6f332"
}