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1. Final Progress Report: Medication List Consistency When Patients Transition from Hospital to Community (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/kennelty-report.pdf
   January 01, 2024 - A pharmacist was included in this study if he or she 1) was a community pharmacist, 2) reported practicing … One retail pharmacist was invited to participate because the pharmacist’s patient had 10 medication … A retail pharmacist explained that their organizational-level management does not value medication reconciliations … Another retail pharmacist described her dilemma between her organization’s business model, which rewards … The three big-box pharmacists and one retail pharmacist rated their confidence level to be below 75%

2. Provider: Pharmacist | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/topics/provider-pharmacist.html
   Topic: Provider: Pharmacist List of AHRQ content related to pharmacists and other pharmacy providers

3. AHRQ Research Helps Pharmacists in Mentoring Program to Reduce Drug Errors in Emergency Departments | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cquips0802.html
   October 01, 2014 - goal of this ongoing mentoring experience is to encourage the creation of permanent programs featuring clinical … The program has attracted pharmacists already working in emergency departments, as well as pharmacists … whose institutions are interested in establishing an emergency pharmacist program. … A new group of 10 hospital pharmacists began participation in 2008. … A small hospital, for example, may not be able to afford a dedicated emergency pharmacist."

4. Medication Therapy Tools Help Pharmacists Educate Patients, Improve Adherence and Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201714.html
   September 01, 2019 - Medication Therapy Tools Help Pharmacists Educate Patients, Improve Adherence and Safety Search All … AHRQ’s Health Literacy Tools for Providers of Medication Therapy Management make it easier for pharmacists … Pharmacists work directly with patients, their medical providers, and community pharmacists to ensure … Busy pharmacists can find what they need in one consolidated resource. … Patients talk by phone with a pharmacist to address their personal needs.

5. Final Progress Report: RESPOND Pharmacy Education Toolkit: AHRQ Final Report (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/hartung-report.pdf
   January 01, 2024 - This project had three specific aims: 1) Develop policies and procedures for how community pharmacists … Our goal was to develop the toolkit and pilot test it with community pharmacists who work in a large … Changing community pharmacists’ opioid safety attitudes, self-efficacy, and knowledge with the RESPOND … Using the theory of planned behavior to investigate community pharmacists’ beliefs regarding engaging … Factors associated with provision of addiction treatment information by community pharmacists.

6. Final Progress Report: The ED Pharmacist as a Safety Measure in Emergency Medicine (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/fairbanks-report.pdf
   January 01, 2024 - of care, very few EDs include clinical pharmacists as a part of the care team. … Few Academic EDs Utilize Clinical Pharmacists. … Use of Clinical Pharmacists in Emergency Departments with Residency Programs. … Clinical Pharmacists in Emergency Medicine. … Use of Clinical Pharmacists in Academic EDs is Limited (Abstract).

7. AHRQ’s Work Helps Convince Army Medical Center to Reinstate E.D. Clinical Pharmacist | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201519.html
   July 01, 2015 - Clinical Pharmacist Search All Impact Case Studies July 2015 Influenced by AHRQ-sponsored … "AHRQ research laid the groundwork for hospital funding of the [clinical pharmacist] program," said Laquisha … Cartwright, Pharm.D., B.C.P.S., an emergency medicine clinical pharmacist. … The findings helped identify how emergency pharmacist programs might best be structured. … “Though some were skeptical at first, the medical staff have expressed gratitude that a clinical pharmacist

8. Case Example #3: Fairview Health Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/workforce-financing/case-example-3.html
   July 01, 2019 - The pharmacist-provided MTM services, which won the 2004 American Pharmacists Association Foundation's … agreement with the Fairview Medical Group (consisting of Fairview's primary care clinics) allowing the retail … which monitors and manages patients on anticoagulant medication, is nurse led, but supervised by a clinical … MTM pharmacists document drug interactions in the Fairview EHR. … Collaborative Practice Agreements and Pharmacists' Patient Care Services: A Resource for Pharmacists

9. Final Progress Report: Improving Safety After Hospitalization in Older Persons on High-Risk Medications (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/gurwitz2-report.pdf
   January 01, 2024 - The clinical pharmacist reviewed each of these tasks and remediated as needed. … Component 4 – Follow-Up Phone Call to Patient/Caregiver by Pharmacist: The clinical pharmacist assigned … did not participate as clinical pharmacists in the intervention. … Additionally, interviews were conducted with two clinical pharmacists who implemented the intervention … The clinical pharmacists identified 368 total medication issues for 173 (96%) of the 180 intervention

10. AHRQ Research Inspires Efforts at Banner Desert To Reduce Drug Errors in E.D. Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201509.html
    January 01, 2018 - Clinical pharmacists at the 549-bed hospital now depend on pharmacy technicians to work with E.D. patients … time for nurses and doctors who previously collected the information, and is making the hospital's clinical … pharmacist program more effective. … Hays, Pharm.D., B.C.P.S., found that pharmacists in the E.D. often devoted an inordinate amount of time … nurses; when issues arose, they "resulted in a significant amount of time spent on the back end by pharmacists

11. New Models of Primary Care Workforce and Financing - Case Example #3: Fairview Health Services (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/workforce-financing/case_example_3.pdf
    October 01, 2016 - The pharmacist-provided MTM services, which won the 2004 American Pharmacists Association Foundation … agreement with the Fairview Medical Group (consisting of Fairview’s primary care clinics) allowing the retail … MTM Pharmacist: The MTM pharmacist is considered a provider in the Fairview system. … which monitors and manages patients on anticoagulant medication, is nurse led, but supervised by a clinical … Collaborative Practice Agreements and Pharmacists’ Patient Care Services: A Resource for Pharmacists.

12. Final Progress Report: Improving Transplant Med Safety through a Pharmacist-Led, mHealth-Based Program (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/taber-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Participants randomized to the intervention received supplemental, clinical pharmacist–led medication … Research demonstrates that clinical pharmacists have the unique education and training to identify these … Only study coordinators and clinical pharmacists assessing medication errors, AEs, and clinical outcomes … In addition to usual care, the intervention group received clinical pharmacist–led supplemental medication … The intervention included clinical pharmacist telemonitoring of medications, medical appointment adherence

13. University of Tennessee Pharmacist Practice Based Research Network | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/communities/pbrn/registry/university-tennessee-pharmacist-practice-based-research-network.html
    January 01, 2012 - University of Tennessee Pharmacist Practice Based Research Network Status: Inactive Registered … , 2012 PBRN Acronym: UT Pharm Net PBRN Type: Pharmacy Network (at least 75% are pharmacists … Tennessee Network Founded: 2007 PBRN Mission Statement: To provide a forum for pharmacists … to conduct collaborative research focused on medication use, clinical pharmacy practice, and pharmacist … To optimize medication use and clinical pharmacist practice that results in high quality, reproducible

14. From Insight to Implementation: Lessons from a Multi-site Trial of a PDA-based Warfarin Dose Calculator (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Kravitz.pdf
    February 09, 2005 - randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of WARFDOCS relied heavily upon inpatient clinical … pharmacists. … The potential benefits of a computerized warfarin dosing assistance program were most clear to clinical … ’ — pharmacist at Hospital C More experienced pharmacists anticipated fewer gains, and a few expressed … Challenges to the pharmacist profession from escalating pharmaceutical demand.

15. Final Report: Improving Drug Safety (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/magid-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Whether computer-assisted dosing and the services of clinical pharmacists can improve renal drug dosing … The pharmacist cannot dispense these prescriptions without active intervention. … The pharmacist confirms an alert’s validity and consults decision support guides that assist the pharmacist … To determine whether a medication error had occurred, all medications dispensed were reviewed by a clinical … To determine whether a medication error had occurred, all medications dispensed were reviewed by a clinical

16. Final Progress Report: Risk-Informed Interventions in Community Pharmacy: Implementation and Evaluation (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/cohen2-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - software was conducted, and perceptions regarding the extent to which the software could be used by community … Pharmacist Survey Results Nineteen of approximately 50 pharmacists from the 18 participating pharmacies … Pharmacist disinterest was perceived by BS/MS- prepared pharmacists to be a stronger barrier to patient … BS/MS-prepared pharmacists were less likely to believe that familiarity between a pharmacist and patient … National Community Pharmacists Association and Pfizer Inc. 2003.

17. Imbedding Research in Practice to Improve Medication Safety (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Raebel_53.pdf
    May 07, 2008 - The pharmacist could not dispense a prescription carrying an alert without actively intervening. … The pharmacist first confirmed an alert’s validity and then consulted decision-support guidelines that … In the Critical Drug Interactions project, the pharmacist recommended a therapeutically similar drug … For example, clinical pharmacists from the Local 7 Labor Unit led the planning, delivery, and modification … This resulted in the pharmacist being alerted incorrectly that a woman was pregnant.

18. Final Progress Report: Demonstration of Quality Improvement of Medication Therapy Management Services (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/doucette-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - One treatment group also received pharmacist training. … The pharmacist training intervention provided online support of MTM delivery but had limited pharmacist … Settings MTM services were conducted by trained community pharmacists in Outcomes’ MTM program network … ’ pharmacists serving the beneficiaries in the study. … Value of online medication therapy management resources: Community pharmacist perspectives.

19. Final Progress Report: Transforming the Medication Regimen Review Process of High-Risk Drugs Using a Patient-Centered, Telemedicine-Based Approach to Prevent ADEs in the Nursing Home (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/kane-gill-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - NH residents and physicians rated pharmacists more positively after the intervention. Key Words. … Two clinical pharmacists then evaluated all interventions based on the prespecified criteria to determine … ; and 3) attending physicians act upon the pharmacists’ reports within 30 days. … Expanding pharmacist services using telemedicine; Telehealth panel, American Society of Consultant Pharmacists … American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Annual Meeting, Kissimmee, Florida.

20. A Patient Safety Program & Research Evaluation of U.S. Navy Pharmacy Refill Clinics (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Reige.pdf
    March 01, 2004 - The clinical pharmacist asks the patients about over-the-counter medications and herbal preparations … This could be helpful in staffing pharmacists. … The clinical pharmacist is empowered in this revised practice model to facilitate the work they know … The clinical pharmacist is given the opportunity to discuss with patients such issues as adverse drug … Upon interpreting a patient’s laboratory values, the clinical pharmacist would contact the provider