Drug Topics October 17, 2024
In posters presented at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy 2024 Annual Meeting, researchers explored the implementation of collaborative care programs within various health systems.
According to data from posters presented at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy 2024 Annual Meeting, pharmacist-led comprehensive medication management programs decreased the burden of shortages and burnouts for providers while also enhancing patient satisfaction and overall health outcomes.1 They also explored collaborative practice agreements,2 finding that a 7-step systematic intervention resulted in significant outcomes that improved relationships between pharmacists and physicians.3
“The impact of pharmaceutical care is proportional to physicians’ acceptance rates of pharmacist interventions, yet research on maximizing these rates is limited,” wrote authors of a poster presented at the American College of...