should clinical services provided by pharmacists be compensated?

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Medication therapy management services provided by student pharmacists.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of student pharmacists delivering medication therapy management (MTM) services during an elective advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE). METHODS Student pharmacists provided MTM services at community pharmacy APPE sites, documented their recommendations, and then made follow-up telephone calls to patients to determine the impact of the MTM provided. St...

When should an intervention be provided?

The questions of whether, when, and how much to provide of a health care intervention are central to decision making across all levels of health care, from government through to individual clinicians. A recent Editorial in Australian Journal of Physiotherapy declared that the benefit-harm trade-off method (Barrett et al 2005) was a 'clearly superior' approach to determine whether effects of an ...

Understanding public trust in services provided by community pharmacists relative to those provided by general practitioners: a qualitative study

OBJECTIVES To apply sociological theories to understand public trust in extended services provided by community pharmacists relative to those provided by general practitioners (GPs). DESIGN Qualitative study involving focus groups with members of the public. SETTING The West of Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 26 purposively sampled members of the public were involved in one of five focus groups. T...

Provision of Clinical Preventive Services by Community Pharmacists

Community pharmacists are highly accessible health care professionals, providing opportunities for partnerships with other health care and public health professionals to expand the population's access to clinical preventive services. To document examples of the community pharmacist's role in providing clinical preventive services to the general population, we conducted PubMed searches using the...