Postdischarge community pharmacist–provided home services for patients after hospitalization for heart failure

Kalista, Tom; Lemay, Virginia; Cohen, Lisa

doi:10.1331/japha.2015.14235

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“…This may require collaborating with and educating hospital leaders and inpatient personnel on the benefits, roles, and services that community pharmacists can offer for improving TOC . These partnerships are especially important because community pharmacies rely on inpatient personnel, including nurses, care managers, and social workers, to recruit patients and coordinate discharge information delivery . Having access to patient health information data and a direct line of communication with the patient's primary care team is ideal for community pharmacies.…”

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“…51 These partnerships are especially important because community pharmacies rely on inpatient personnel, including nurses, care managers, and social workers, to recruit patients and coordinate discharge information delivery. 17,[51][52][53][54]57 Having access to patient health information data and a direct line of communication with the patient's primary care team is ideal for community pharmacies. This is important because time spent by community pharmacists or support personnel in delivering medications, tracking down medication lists, or calling primary care providers for the medication information needed to complete medication reconciliations and following up on medication-related problems accrues staffing costs.…”

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Role of clinical pharmacists and pharmacy support personnel in transitions of care

Stranges

Jackevicius

Anderson

et al. 2020

J Am Coll Clin Pharm

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Patients moving between health care settings or providers are at increased risk of complications, including unplanned hospital readmissions and medication errors. Several actions must occur in concert with members of the health care team and across settings to ensure coordinated and continuous care for patients undergoing these transitions of care (TOC). Clinical pharmacists support patients during care transitions by providing interventions and services designed to improve medication outcomes. Clinical pharmacists and team members who support clinical pharmacist activities (eg, pharmacy students, technicians, and residents) are located throughout the care continuum, from acute care to care in the community, with each contributing to improved TOC outcomes. This article provides information on evidence of high‐impact clinical pharmacist TOC practices to serve as a practical guide for practitioners interested in starting or improving TOC activities. This article also addresses current and emerging best practices and offers suggestions for improving clinical pharmacist involvement in care transition activities.

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Section: Outpatient Clinic Settingsmentioning

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Role of clinical pharmacists and pharmacy support personnel in transitions of care

Stranges

Jackevicius

Anderson

et al. 2020

J Am Coll Clin Pharm

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“…[4,18] Of the 21 sample studies, only two [19,20] had a single intervention component, while 12 studies included four or more intervention components. [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] Several of the intervention components were employed in many of the studies we examined. Discharge planning (used in 7 studies) and provider education (used in 2 studies) were the least-often used intervention components.…”

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Interventions to address medication-related causes of hospital readmissions: A scoping review

Carroll

Joseph

Puro

2019

JHA

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Unplanned readmissions pose a tremendous burden on patients, providers, and payers. A significant proportion of readmissions are medication-related. Despite the availability of literature regarding hospital-level strategies to reduce readmissions, little has been written about strategies aimed at medication-related readmissions. We sought to identify successful readmission reduction strategies by performing a scoping literature review of research published between 2000 and 2017. We identified 21 studies that met our inclusion criteria. From these studies, we identified 7 components frequently employed as a part of interventions to reduce medication-related readmissions: discharge planning, discharge education, post-discharge telephone calls, the use of a professional coordinator with clinical training to administer the intervention, patient education efforts, provider training efforts, and medication reconciliation. Thirty-eight percent of all the interventions identified were associated with a statistically significant reduction in readmissions. Of the 7 common intervention components we identified, none were consistently associated with intervention success in the full sample. However, interventions implemented by inpatient hospitals, in particular academic medical centers, had a higher success rate than interventions implemented by other providers. We examined a subsample of larger studies and found that discharge planning and medication reconciliation components were included in most of the successful interventions. Future research should look beyond simply identifying components included in an intervention and should instead seek to identify contextual factors that enable or inhibit the success of these components. Research examining discharge planning and medication reconciliation efforts will be particularly important.

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“…4 Researchers have demonstrated that community pharmacists, working in collaboration with other health care providers, have helped to decrease readmission rates and reduce the number of medication-related problems experienced by patients with various disorders and have a positive impact on improving overall patient outcomes. [5][6][7] For example, pharmacists with competent knowledge on celiac disease can potentially prevent and help patients and other health care providers identify complications from the disease which may lead to hospitalizations, readmissions and a decreased quality of life for patients.…”

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Exploring the Community Pharmacist’s Knowledge of Celiac Disease

Avena-Woods

Mangione

2018

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

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Postdischarge community pharmacist–provided home services for patients after hospitalization for heart failure

Cited by 46 publications

References 6 publications

Role of clinical pharmacists and pharmacy support personnel in transitions of care

Role of clinical pharmacists and pharmacy support personnel in transitions of care

Interventions to address medication-related causes of hospital readmissions: A scoping review

Exploring the Community Pharmacist’s Knowledge of Celiac Disease

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