Specialty services offered by pharmacists in the community

Provision of Clinical Preventive Services by Community Pharmacists

Community pharmacists are highly accessible health care professionals, providing opportunities for partnerships with other health care and public health professionals to expand the population's access to clinical preventive services. To document examples of the community pharmacist's role in providing clinical preventive services to the general population, we conducted PubMed searches using the...

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Attitudes toward and factors affecting implementation of medication therapy management services by community pharmacists.

OBJECTIVE To compare the attitudes of community pharmacy managers who did and did not contract with Mirixa to provide Medicare Part D medication therapy management (MTM) services in 2006. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING United States in 2006. PARTICIPANTS 100 pharmacy managers contracted to provide MTM services in 2006 and 100 pharmacy managers not contracted to provide ...

The evolving specialty community medicine in Canada.

Community medicine in Canada has its origin as a specialty in the 1970's and stems from a long and honourable tradition in public health practice which is now outmoded and no longer meets the significant challenges that face contemporary society. The forces that prompted the need for rethinking and reshaping can be traced to several events viz, deemphasis of institutional health care; avoidance...