Drug Topics August 18, 2024
Pharmacists need support—through partnerships and reimbursement—to provide more diverse services to patients.
Patient interventions are a key part of community pharmacy practice, from ensuring adherence to crucial medications to counseling patients on chronic disease management. Diabetes is one of these chronic diseases, with multiple studies demonstrating that that pharmacist-led interventions can improve outcomes in type 2 diabetes and HbA1c levels.1,2
“We’ve been doing diabetes interventions in pharmacy for a long time—and we’re really good at it,” said Jon Easter. “We achieve better outcomes: We see lower costs and we see better clinical outcomes.
Easter is a professor of practice and the vice chair, practice advancement, at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. He spoke with Drug Topics during the 2024...
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