Project Impact: Diabetes Final Results Reinforce Value Of Pharmacists' Services

Improving outcomes for diverse populations disproportionately affected by diabetes: final results of Project IMPACT: Diabetes.

OBJECTIVE To improve key indicators of diabetes care by expanding a proven community-based model of care throughout high-risk areas in the United States. DESIGN Observational, multisite, pre-post comparison study. SETTING Federally qualified health centers, free clinics, employer worksites, community pharmacies, departments of health, physician offices, and other care facilities in 25 commu...

Integrating pharmacists into diverse diabetes care teams: implementation tactics from Project IMPACT: Diabetes.

OBJECTIVE To describe local implementation tactics used by the 25 Project IMPACT Diabetes communities and partnering organizations to help patients who are disproportionately affected by diabetes. SETTING Care was delivered in 25 communities within 17 states at federally qualified health centers, community pharmacies, free clinics, employer work sites, medical clinics, physician offices, an...

Pharmaceutical care services and results in project ImPACT: hyperlipidemia.

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate that pharmacists, working collaboratively with patients and physicians and having immediate access to objective point-of-care patient data, promote patient persistence and compliance with prescribed dyslipidemic therapy that enables patients to achieve their National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) goals. DESIGN Observational study. PARTICIPANTS 26 community-ba...

Pharmacy and immunization services: pharmacists' participation and impact.

OBJECTIVES To conduct a follow-up to the National Pharmacist Immunization Survey of 1998 to determine changes in pharmacist involvement in immunizations and obstacles to pharmacy-based immunization services and to assess the descriptive information about pharmacy-based immunization services provided. DESIGN Cross-sectional mail survey. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS A randomly select...

D20 - Project final report and results of trials