Pharmacist involvement in medication refills is found to improve patient care

As with different pharmaceutical care fashions, pharmacist involvement in addressing remedy refill requests can improve affected person care in addition to positively influence doctor workloads, in keeping with a latest research revealed on-line in Journal of Main Care & Group Well being.

“As remedy specialists, pharmacists are uniquely positioned with expertise to assessment sufferers’ full remedy regimens and might make suggestions to enhance outcomes, together with dose changes, transitions to more practical or safer remedy choices and addressing drug interactions,” stated corresponding writer Keri Hurley-Kim, UCI well being sciences affiliate scientific professor of scientific pharmacy apply. “We are able to additionally positively influence doctor well-being by decreasing their administrative workload.”

In collaboration with Sarah McBane, UCI well being sciences scientific professor of scientific pharmacy apply, and researchers from the Saban Group Clinic in Los Angeles, Hurley-Kim evaluated a pharmacist-managed refill service at a federally certified well being clinic to find out effectiveness of the mannequin. The group discovered that refill turnaround instances and affected person entry to remedy improved, and pharmacists have been in a position to determine and tackle quite a few medication-related issues. “This mannequin might turn into more and more necessary as we face a big scarcity of main care suppliers and the demand for high quality affected person care continues to develop,” Hurley-Kim stated.