Home Drug Delivery Service from the Perspective of Community Pharmacy Staff in Saudi Arabia
, Mona Yaser Alsheikh, Ahmed Ibrahim Fathelrahman, Meshal Suwaylih Alzaidi, Fawaz Jilan Faqeeh, Abdulelah Mohammad Althobaiti and Ali Mofleh Alshahrani
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Author Response
Thank you very much for your comments on the manuscript itself. We replied to your critics and responded to your suggestions in the same document. Please see the attachment.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Thank you for the opportunity to review “Home Drug Delivery Service from The Perspective of Community Pharmacists in Saudi Arabia”. This study utilized descriptive, cross-sectional self-administered survey design to understand home drug delivery service from the perspective of community pharmacists in Saudi Arabia and to investigate the obstacles that may limit the use of home drug delivery service. The authors report responses from young pharmacists that perceive home delivery as being a boon for medication adherence. Lack of skill and knowledge are also perceived as serving as a barrier. The following comments are intended to provide strength and clarification to the reported study. However, my overall concern is that this study may be too descriptive for publication in Pharmacy.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
1. The paper describes use of a convenience sample for this survey, but what facilities received the survey and why?
2. Please clarify the meaning of “direct” distribution in this paper. Does that mean directly provided by investigators? Is it a paper survey?
3. Please describe why 965 pharmacists were recruited and how this sample size was established a priori. Please justify the use of such a large sample for descriptive statistics and the over effect size of your sample.
4. How were survey questions created? Were they borrowed from the literature or created for the purposed of this study? Please clarify in the manuscript.
5. Please include example questions and the response format used for the questions.
DISCUSSION
1. Please discuss the reason behind the demographic distributions (particularly gender and age) and how that may have affected the results of the reported study. This is somewhat reported as limitations, but the implications of such distributions are not discussed.
Author Response
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Revisions are well done. Thank you!
