The study, published in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, assessed the cost and effectiveness of a home-based centralized specialist medication management system. Patients had access to rheumatology, allergy, cardiology, dermatology, gastroenterology and pharmacy professionals.
The Veterans Health Administration hospital utilized clinical pharmacist practitioners to give administrative assistance, initial patient education, technique correction and medication changes or discontinuations. The analysis found pharmacists provided the most consequential help to patients.
“The most consequential interventions were likely the early identification and intervention after the emergence of serious adverse effects,” researchers told the AJMC. “While this occurred less frequently, the introduction of early close CPP monitoring may have prevented longer lasting ramifications for these individuals.”
