{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,2]],"date-time":"2025-08-02T16:58:12Z","timestamp":1754153892113,"version":"3.41.2"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Canadian Society of Healthcare-Systems Pharmacy","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Can J Hosp Pharm"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Background: Patient care ratios for pharmacists are not well defined in Canada. A recent work-sampling study involving 6 medium and large hospitals within the region served by Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services, British Columbia, reported pharmacist-to-patient ratios of 1:13, 1:26, and 1:14 in internal medicine teaching units, hospitalist or internal medicine nonteaching units, and surgical units, respectively.\nObjective: To determine the pharmacist-to-patient ratios required to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to adult patients admitted to medical and surgical units in medium and large hospitals in British Columbia.\nMethods: In this cross-sectional electronic survey study, participants were asked to provide estimates of the time spent on and the frequency of 17 comprehensive pharmaceutical care tasks identified in the previous study, which was based on a Delphi method. The survey data were used to calculate pharmacy staffing ratios according to the World Health Organization workforce calculator.\nResults: Fifty-eight pharmacists responded to the survey, of whom 41 (71%) were from medium and large hospitals. The optimal pharmacist- to-patient ratios were calculated as 1:7 for internal medicine teaching units; 1:10 for internal medicine nonteaching, hospitalist, and family practice units; and 1:14 for surgical units.\nConclusions: The pharmacist-to-patient ratios calculated in this study, using only pharmacists\u2019 self-reported information, were lower than those found previously. Further research is required to determine whether completion of every comprehensive care task is necessary, or if staffing ratios should reflect combinations of comprehensive care tasks based on patient complexity. National consensus guidelines on pharmacist staffing ratios may be valuable, given the current lack of standardization of pharmacy staffing ratios in hospitals.\nKeywords: pharmacists, hospital pharmacy service, personnel staffing and scheduling, hospitals, workforce\nR\u00c9SUM\u00c9\nContexte : Les ratios de prise en charge des patients par les pharmaciens ne sont pas clairement d\u00e9finis au Canada. Une r\u00e9cente \u00e9tude par \u00e9chantillonnage du travail men\u00e9e dans 6 h\u00f4pitaux de moyenne et grande taille dans la r\u00e9gion desservie par les Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services en Colombie-Britannique a rapport\u00e9 des ratios pharmacien-patients de 1:13 dans les unit\u00e9s d\u2019enseignement de m\u00e9decine interne, de 1:26 dans les unit\u00e9s de m\u00e9decine interne ou d\u2019hospitalisation sans enseignement, et de 1:14 dans les unit\u00e9s chirurgicales.\nObjectif : D\u00e9terminer les ratios pharmacien-patients n\u00e9cessaires pour offrir des soins pharmaceutiques complets aux patients adultes admis dans les unit\u00e9s m\u00e9dicales et chirurgicales dans les h\u00f4pitaux de moyenne et grande taille en Colombie-Britannique.\nM\u00e9thodologie : Dans cette \u00e9tude transversale men\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019aide d\u2019un sondage \u00e9lectronique, les participants ont \u00e9t\u00e9 invit\u00e9s \u00e0 estimer le temps et la fr\u00e9quence consacr\u00e9s \u00e0 17 t\u00e2ches de soins pharmaceutiques complets, d\u00e9finies dans une \u00e9tude pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente utilisant la m\u00e9thode Delphi. Les donn\u00e9es recueillies ont \u00e9t\u00e9 utilis\u00e9es pour calculer les ratios de personnel en pharmacie selon le calculateur de main-d\u2019\u0153uvre de l\u2019Organisation mondiale de la sant\u00e9.\nR\u00e9sultats : Cinquante-huit pharmaciens ont r\u00e9pondu au sondage, dont 41 (71 %) provenaient d\u2019h\u00f4pitaux de moyenne et grande taille. Les ratios pharmacien-patients optimaux ont \u00e9t\u00e9 calcul\u00e9s comme suit : 1:7 pour les unit\u00e9s d\u2019enseignement en m\u00e9decine interne; 1:10 pour les unit\u00e9s non enseignantes de m\u00e9decine interne, d\u2019hospitalisation et de m\u00e9decine familiale; et 1:14 pour les unit\u00e9s chirurgicales.\nConclusions : Les ratios pharmacien-patients calcul\u00e9s dans cette \u00e9tude, bas\u00e9s uniquement sur les informations autod\u00e9clar\u00e9es des pharmaciens, \u00e9taient inf\u00e9rieurs \u00e0 ceux trouv\u00e9s pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment. Des recherches suppl\u00e9mentaires sont n\u00e9cessaires pour d\u00e9terminer si l\u2019accomplissement de chaque t\u00e2che de soins complets est indispensable, ou si les ratios de personnel devraient refl\u00e9ter des combinaisons de t\u00e2ches de soins complets en fonction de la complexit\u00e9 des patients. Des lignes directrices nationales sur les ratios de personnel pharmaceutique pourraient \u00eatre utiles, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9e l\u2019absence actuelle de normalisation des ratios de personnel en pharmacie dans les h\u00f4pitaux.\nMots-cl\u00e9s : pharmaciens, service de pharmacie hospitali\u00e8re, dotation en personnel et planification des horaires, h\u00f4pitaux, main-d\u2019\u0153uvre<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4212\/cjhp.3655","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,12]],"date-time":"2025-03-12T13:38:53Z","timestamp":1741786733000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Further Defining Optimal Pharmacist-to-Patient Ratios to Ensure Comprehensive Direct Patient Care in Medical and Surgical Units across British Columbia Hospitals"],"prefix":"10.4212","volume":"78","author":[{"given":"Shelly","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Legal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Karen","family":"Dahri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shazia","family":"Damji","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2732","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,12]]},"container-title":["Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cjhp-online.ca\/index.php\/cjhp\/article\/download\/3655\/5526","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cjhp-online.ca\/index.php\/cjhp\/article\/download\/3655\/5532","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cjhp-online.ca\/index.php\/cjhp\/article\/download\/3655\/5526","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,23]],"date-time":"2025-07-23T16:59:34Z","timestamp":1753289974000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cjhp-online.ca\/index.php\/cjhp\/article\/view\/3655"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,12]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,12]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4212\/cjhp.3655","relation":{},"ISSN":["1920-2903","0008-4123"],"issn-type":[{"type":"electronic","value":"1920-2903"},{"type":"print","value":"0008-4123"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,12]]},"article-number":"e3655"}}