Effectively implementing FDA medication alerts utilizing patient centered medical home clinical pharmacists

Improving Ambulatory Care Resident Training: Preparing for Opportunities to Treat Mental Illness in the Primary Care Setting

“…This was discovered during an institutional initiative involving pharmacist intervention at the Michigan Medicine PCMH clinics following the Food and Drug Administration safety alert regarding the risk of QTc prolongation with citalopram. 27,28 Through this initiative, it was identified that there was a steep learning curve in implementing and building comfort with this initiative, considering none of the PCMH pharmacists had extensive training in psychiatry. Our residency-trained clinical pharmacist practicing in psychiatry was instrumental in providing the education and guidance necessary to support ambulatory pharmacists practicing in our PCMH clinics.…”