Jeroen van de Pol

51 Balancing traditional activities and cognitivepharmaceutical services by community pharmacists: 2 Results In total 11,918 activities were registered by 156 participants. A total of 65 community pharmacists did not provide data on background characteristics and were therefore excluded. The remaining 91 pharmacists registered an activity for 72,4% on average of the alerts. A total of 734 activities coded by the participants as “not at work” were excluded. Table 2: Demographic data. When type of pharmacist is defined as resident, this means that he/she is the pharmacist within the community pharmacy that holds final responsibility for all activities within the community pharmacy practice. Characteristic N = 91 Age in years (mean ± SD) 39.4 ± 10.7 Male gender 30 (33.0%) Graduation year (mean ± SD) 2002 ± 10 Type of pharmacist: • Resident and (partial) owner • Resident in paid employment • Locum 27 (29.7%) 33 (36.3%) 31 (34.1%) Working hours per week (mean ± SD) 36.7 ± 7.3 Pharmacy part of pharmacy chain or partnership • No • Partnership with < 5 pharmacies • Between 5-25 pharmacies • Chain > 25 pharmacies 32 (35.2%) 20 (22.0%) 23 (25.3%) 16 (17.6%) Community pharmacists stating being in control of time utilization Yes, fully in control More or less in control 48 (52.7%) 43 (47.3%) Descriptive analysis of the distribution of the amount of time spent on CPS showed that three groups of approximately equal size could be defined based on the amount of time they spend on CPS. Table 3: Definition of the three groups based on the amount of time spent on cognitive pharmaceutical services (CPS). Group Defined by time spent on CPS (%) Average time ± SD spent on CPS (%) 1 (n = 34) 0 – 10 6.1 ± 2.8 2 (n = 37) 10 – 20 15.5 ± 2.8 3 (n = 20) > 20 25.8 ± 5.4