id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-276255-0ofsa40u Cheong, Mark Wing Loong ‘To be or not to be in the ward’: The Impact of Covid‐19 on the Role of Hospital‐Based Clinical Pharmacists ‐ A Qualitative Study 2020-08-12 .txt text/plain 3676 226 53 OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on hospital‐based clinical pharmacists working in Malaysia and the implications on how clinical pharmacy is perceived as a health care service. Clinical pharmacists in Malaysia are pharmacists who have been assigned to work in the hospital wards, where they provide pharmaceutical care to patients and support the health care team with information and guidance for the effective use of medicines. This study aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital-based clinical pharmacists in Malaysia and the implications on how clinical pharmacy is perceived as a health care service. The coding and subsequent analysis of the findings of this study led to the development of 3 main themes: 'Reassignment and other changes in clinical pharmacist roles', 'Adapting clinical pharmacy services to COVID-19', and 'The need for clinical pharmacists in the ward'. ./cache/cord-276255-0ofsa40u.txt ./txt/cord-276255-0ofsa40u.txt