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SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
卷 146, 期 -, 页码 95-103出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.037
关键词
Australia; Sociology; Qualitative; Pharmacy; Hospital; Antibiotics
资金
- Australian Research Council [LP140100020]
- Australian Research Council [LP140100020] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
The misuse of antibiotics has become a major public health problem given the global threat of multiresistant organisms and an anticipated 'antimicrobial perfect storm' within the next few decades. Despite recent attempts by health service providers to optimise antibiotic usage, widespread inappropriate use of antibiotics continues in hospitals internationally. In this study, drawing on qualitative interviews with Australian pharmacists, we explore how they engage in antibiotic decisions in the hospital environment. We develop a sociological understanding of pharmacy as situated within evolving inter-professional power relations, inflected by an emerging milieu whereby antibiotic optimisation is organisationally desired but interprofessionally constrained. We argue that the case of antibiotics articulates important interprofessional asymmetries, positioning pharmacists as delimited negotiators within the context of medical prescribing power. We conclude that jurisdictional uncertainties, and the resultant interprofessional dynamics between pharmacy and medicine, are vital delimiting factors in the emerging role of pharmacists as 'antimicrobial stewards' in the hospital environment. Moreover, we argue that a nuanced understanding of the character of interprofessional negotiations is key to improving the use of antibiotics within and beyond the hospital. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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