Over 80 million American adults were diagnosed with hypertension in 2011, and there was a 39% increase in deaths related to hypertension between 2001 and 2011. Hypertension was associated with $46.4 billion in direct and indirect costs in the United States in 2011. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data analyses have found that individuals from under-represented minority groups o...

BACKGROUND Traditional systems of managing repeat prescribing have been criticised for their lack of clinical and administrative controls. AIM To compare a community pharmacist-managed repeat prescribing system with established methods of managing repeat prescribing. METHOD A randomised controlled intervention study (19 general medical practices, 3074 patients, 62 community pharmacists). Pa...

BACKGROUND Control of blood pressure (BP) remains a major challenge in primary care. Innovative interventions to improve BP control are therefore needed. By updating and combining data from 2 previous systematic reviews, we assess the effect of pharmacist interventions on BP and identify potential determinants of heterogeneity. METHODS AND RESULTS Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing...

UNLABELLED The aim of the study was to use a clinical pharmacist in order to improve the medication of patients in a geriatric hospital unit. The hospital had no experience of using a clinical pharmacist before. METHODS A clinical pharmacist participated in the therapeutic team for 27 days during a 4-year period. Drug-related problems were recorded prospectively and discussed before and at th...

Pharmacy education in Indonesia mainly involves a four-year undergraduate degree, followed by one-year professional pharmacy programme. The curriculum and learning outcomes of programmes follow academic standards set the Association Indonesian Higher Education, based on Seven Star Pharmacist concept developed World Health Organisation (WHO). Most are focused general skills knowledge, which incl...

BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction with medication therapy management (MTM), a required component of the Medicare Part D benefit, is an important outcome to consider when evaluating MTM programs. OBJECTIVE To measure patient satisfaction with a pharmacist-provided telephone MTM program. METHODS The study design was nonexperimental and cross sectional. A survey was mailed to Scott & White Healt...

BACKGROUND The Student Perceptions of Physician-Pharmacist Interprofessional Clinical Education (SPICE) instrument contains 10 items, 3 factors (interprofessional teamwork and team-based practice, roles/responsibilities for collaborative practice, and patient outcomes from collaborative practice), and utilizes a five-point response scale (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree). Given the SP...

INTRODUCTION Pneumonia impacts over four million people annually and is the leading cause of infectious disease-related hospitalization and mortality in the United States. Appropriate empiric antimicrobial therapy decreases hospital length of stay and improves mortality. The objective of our study was to test the hypothesis that the presence of an emergency medicine (EM) clinical pharmacist imp...

OBJECTIVES To describe our statewide, pharmacist-led education campaign to increase knowledge and awareness of pneumococcal immunization recommendations. SETTING Immunization providers and residents in the state of Rhode Island. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION A clinical pathway (i.e., decision-support tool) was developed to educate health professionals about appropriate indications, administration sc...