Pharmacists can help care teams meet quality measures

Implementing guidelines in primary care: can population impact measures help?

BACKGROUND Primary care organisations are faced with implementing a large number of guideline recommendations. We present methods by which the number of eligible patients requiring treatment, and the relative benefits to the whole population served by a general practice or Primary Care Trust, can be calculated to help prioritise between different guideline recommendations. METHODS We have dev...

Can Teams Help to Close the Gender Competition Gap

Previous research finds that significant gender differences occur when experimental subjects choose whether or not to enter a competition, even when performance levels are similar across genders. In this paper, we investigate the potential for competing in teams to reduce these differences. We first replicate earlier findings that men are more likely to compete than women when the competitions ...

Psychiatric core measures help hospitals improve care.

Indoor Air Quality and Severity of COVID-19: Where Communicable and Non-communicable Preventive Measures Meet

Pharmacists help improve hypertension management

A solution: A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to identify and evaluate pharmacists’ interventions in the management of patients with high BP. Studies included in the systematic review were primarily conducted in medical clinics and community pharmacies. Th e most common interventions (82%) were medication management (e.g. drug dosage adjustments), and education about high bloo...