Full Injection and Immunization Authority Planned for Ontario Pharmacists
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Abstract
The wheels are in motion to give Ontario pharmacists the regulatory authority to administer routine injections and immunizations, with the Ontario Pharmacists' Association (OPA) expecting several hundred pharmacists to have received training in the practice by the end of March 2012. Pharmacists were given the authority to administer injections for demonstration or education purposes in Bill 179, the 2009 legislation that expanded scope of practice in a number of areas. Disappointed that full injection authority wasn't included at the time, the OPA has been advocating for its inclusion ever since. “We've been telling the government that approving this authority would be in the public interest,” says OPA chief executive officer Dennis Darby. “Over time there has been much more data showing that pharmacists can do this. For example, British Columbia has done very well, with over 1000 of their pharmacists now trained and administering injections and vaccines.” In December 2011, the Council of the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP) approved a draft regulation that eliminated the restriction, paving the way for full authority to administer drugs by injection. The new registrar of the College is Marshall Moleschi, most recently the registrar of the College of Pharmacists of BC. A 60-day consultation period on the proposed new rules was to end in mid-February, after which the OCP planned to seek government approval. The OPA launched its injection and immunization certificate program in June of last year. According to Darby, it is expected that around 400 Ontario pharmacists will have completed the program by the end of March. “Our objective is to have at least 1000 pharmacists trained by fall of this year,” he says. “Provided the regulation is passed by then, that would put pharmacists in a good position to start administering the seasonal flu vaccine.” Pharmacists in BC and elsewhere have demonstrated the value they bring to the health care system when they participate in flu vaccination, says Darby. “From a public health point of view, there is a lot of added value in terms of convenience and accessibility. It's particularly important for seniors to protect themselves against influenza, and many seniors have close relationships with their pharmacist. It provides an opportunity for pharmacists to help ensure these patients get vaccinated.”
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".