Impact of Multi-level External Factors on Role Identities of Community Pharmacy Owners/Managers and Service Provision in Ontario, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This qualitative paper aims to explore how multi-level external factors influence the role identity of pharmacy owners/managers and pharmacy service provision. Data were collected from 10 semi-structured interviews and 14 online questionnaires from pharmacy owners/managers at community pharmacies in Ontario, Canada, and were analyzed through thematic analysis. In addition, documents were reviewed to explore the pharmacy field in Ontario. Ten role identities have been found, each showing different degrees of adherence to four institutions: profession, corporation, market, and state. Participants had to negotiate between competing demands created by the four institutions, which were likely to have arisen from a mismatch between policies and the system in the pharmacy field regarding how pharmacy services are understood, financed, and delivered. The findings suggest the importance of understanding healthcare professionals as being socially embedded and creating a coherent system that can facilitate professionals in achieving policy goals and professional ideals.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".