Pharmaceutical services cost analysis using time-driven activity based costing in a sample of Portuguese community pharmacies

Autores: Baptista-Fernandes T, Barbosa-Ferreira JM, Almeida LM

Pharmacists have experienced an expansion of their role in the last decades, developing the scope of
services offered. One challenge that pharmacists face when obtaining payment from patients is establishing a price for the service that is sufficient to support it, and is perceived as a good value by the patient. However, little research has been conducted on the costs of pharmaceutical services (PS) in Portugal. To accurately calculate costs it is important to use a costing methodology that supports itself on real-world data. This study describes the development and application of a Time-driven Activity Based Costing (TDABC) model in a sample of pharmacies in Portugal, with the objective of calculating the cost of the PS provided.
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Implementing ehealth services for enhanced pharmaceutical care provision: Opportunities and challenges

Autores: Baptista-Fernandes T, Kovats A, Baptista-Fernandes T, Barbara McPake, Casaca A
Link: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-36981-0_40

ePharmaCare aims at estimating the health gains from integration of pharmaceutical services; and to assess the potential of ehealth services in the provision of cognitive pharmaceutical services.
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Challenges of information technologies adoption to enable community pharmacies eHealth services

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Online Pharmaceutical Care Provision: Full-Implementation of an eHealth Service Using Design Science Research

Autores: Baptista-Fernandes T, Baptista-Fernandes T, Barbara McPake, Casaca A, Castro H, Carvalho S, Casaca A
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25991146

Chronic diseases are pressing health systems to introduce reforms, focused on primary care and multidisciplinary models. Community pharmacists have developed a new role, addressing pharmaceutical care and services.
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A scenario-planning approach to human resources for health: the case of community pharmacists in Portugal

Autores: Baptista-Fernandes T, Baptista-Fernandes T, Barbara McPake
Link: http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/12/1/58

This study aims to design three future scenarios for Portuguese community pharmacists, recognizing the changing environment as an opportunity to develop the role that community pharmacists may play in the Portuguese health system.
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