STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of pharmacist care on patients with dyslipidemia. DESIGN Systematic review of 21 randomized controlled trials. PATIENTS A total of 5416 patients who received enhanced pharmacist care or standard care as part of a research study. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Nineteen databases and four trial registries were systematically searched from inception thro...

Alassaad, A. 2014. Improving the Quality and Safety of Drug Use in Hospitalized Elderly. Assessing the Effects of Clinical Pharmacist Interventions and Identifying Patients at Risk of Drug-related Morbidity and Mortality. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1049. 65 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9088-1. Older peopl...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate studies of pharmacist-led interventions on potentially inappropriate prescribing among community-dwelling older adults receiving primary care to identify the components of a successful intervention. DATA SOURCES An electronic search of the literature was conducted using the following databases from inception to December 2015: PubMed, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing a...

CONTEXT Relatively few patients with gout receive appropriate treatment. OBJECTIVE To determine whether a pharmacist-staffed gout management program is more effective than usual care in achieving target serum uric acid (sUA) levels in gout patients. DESIGN A parallel-group, randomized controlled trial of a pharmacist-staffed, telephone-based program for managing hyperuricemia vs usual care....

BACKGROUND Hypertension control rates remain suboptimal. Pharmacists' scope of practice is evolving, and their position in the community may be ideal for improving hypertension care. We aimed to study the impact of pharmacist prescribing on blood pressure (BP) control in community-dwelling patients. METHODS AND RESULTS We designed a patient-level, randomized, controlled trial, enrolling adult...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is considered to be the main cause of death and one of the most common diseases affecting health care systems worldwide. Many methods have been used to improve CVD outcomes, one of which is to involve clinical pharmacists in the direct care of patients with CVD. OBJECTIVE To perform a systematic review assessing the effectiveness of clinical pharmacist ...

INTRODUCTION A model of general practitioner (GP) and pharmacist collaboration in primary care may be an effective strategy to reduce medication-related problems and provide better support to patients after discharge. The aim of this study is to investigate whether a model of structured pharmacist and GP care reduces hospital readmissions in high-risk patients. METHODS AND ANALYSIS This proto...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We determine the rate and details of interventions associated with emergency medicine pharmacist review of discharge prescriptions for patients discharged from the emergency department (ED). Additionally, we evaluate care providers' satisfaction with such services provided by emergency medicine pharmacists. METHODS This was a prospective observational study in the ED of an aca...

INTRODUCTION Adherence to and persistence of medications for chronic diseases remains poor and many interventions to improve medication use have only been modestly effective. Targeting interventions to patients who are most likely to benefit should improve their efficiency and clinical impact. This study aims to test the impact of three cost-equivalent pharmacist-led interventions on insulin pe...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of a pharmacist-led educational intervention to reduce the use of high-risk abbreviations (HRAs) by healthcare professionals. DESIGN Quasi-experimental study consisting of a single group before-and-after study design. SETTING A public emergency hospital in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. PARTICIPANTS 660 (preintervention) and then 498 (postintervention) handw...