The role of community pharmacy in wound care: a scoping review.

Abstract

To scope the literature describing the role of pharmacy in wound care in the community setting. A systematic scoping review was conducted including peer-reviewed and grey literature. A search was undertaken using CINAHL, Embase, Informit, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts and MEDLINE, and a Google search of the top 200 results via three virtual private networks were used to identify relevant grey literature. Keywords relating to pharmacy, pharmacist, wound, wound management and wound care were used. Descriptions of wound care activities were extracted, grouped by similarity, and mapped to the International Pharmaceutical Federation's (FIP) Global Competency Framework Version 2 (GbCFv2). Of 2928 potentially relevant articles and 600 web search results, 55 articles from the database search and 11 results from the Google search met the eligibility criteria. After mapping 14 identified roles to the FIP GbCFv2, it was apparent that the scope of practice for wound care spanned across all four competency domains: pharmaceutical public health; pharmaceutical care; professional/personal; and organisational and management. The role of community pharmacy in wound care is multifaceted and within the scope of entry-level competency for pharmacists. These roles comprise wound related and non-wound-specific, clinical and non-clinical activities.