Pharmacists And Team-Based Care

The Role of Team-Based Care Involving Pharmacists to Improve Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes.

The number of patients with cardiovascular and kidney disease in the United States continues to grow as the population ages, increasing the demand on the health care system and its providers. Many patients develop chronic conditions in which optimization of care is labor intensive, specifically hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease. Therefore, innovat...

Pharmacists’ Roles on the Pain Management Team

Pharmacists’ Roles on the Pain Management Team Pharmacists are an important resource for managing pain in their patients, in order to both optimize treatment and prevent the unintended consequences of potent analgesics. While the role of pharmacists in pain management was first addressed in the Translator Summer 2012 edition1, this rapidly evolving area of pharmacy practice has generated a numb...

US pharmacists' effect as team members on patient care: systematic review and meta-analyses.

BACKGROUND One approach postulated to improve the provision of health care is effective utilization of team-based care including pharmacists. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to conduct a comprehensive systematic review with focused meta-analyses to examine the effects of pharmacist-provided direct patient care on therapeutic, safety, and humanistic outcomes. METHODS The following ...

A team-building model for team-based care.

Championing truly collaborative team-based care.

As the nation works toward improving health care delivery models, the concept of team-based care has become more pronounced. Thus, defining it is important, as the position paper from the American College of Physicians (ACP) does in this issue (1). That said, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) disputes many of the principles that the ACP outlines—first and foremost, the over...