The Medication Assessment Program: Comprehensive medication assessments for persons taking multiple medications for chronic diseases

Comprehensive assessment of treatment related problems in hospitalized medicine patients in Jordan

“…This acceptance rate is much higher than that reported in the literature [13]. The lower implementation rate (59.8%) was mainly related to the delay of communicating TRPs and discharge of patients before physicians implement the recommendations.…”

“…During the last 20 years clinical pharmacist became a unique and efficient member of the healthcare team and contributed substantially to the wellbeing of patients in the different health care settings [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][30][31][32][33]. Despite this, clinical pharmacy is very slowly progressing in the developing countries.…”

“…The prevalence and nature of DRPs have been investigated previously in inpatients, outpatients and other clinical settings [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. However, many of these studies had methodological problems related to their design, retrospective nature, definition of DRPs or to the lack of appropriate assessment of patients data.…”

Pharmacist interventions to enhance blood pressure control and adherence to antihypertensive therapy: Review and meta-analysis

“…After assessing their titles and excluding those not mentioning any information pertinent to hypertension, BP, or medication adherence studies, 130 remained and their abstracts read. Of the 47 articles retrieved for full-text review, 32 were excluded for the following reasons: not an interventional study, [25][26][27] studied participants with a different disease not relevant to review, [28][29][30][31][32] did not include pharmacists in the study interventions, 33 presented pharmaceutical interventions and outcomes investigating neither adherence nor BP, [34][35][36][37] presented pharmaceutical interventions and outcomes investigating BP but not adherence, [38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53] investigated medication adherence outcome in the intervention group only and baseline adherence was not measured, 54 and not studies but reviews. 13,55 A total of 15 articles were included as full-text in our systematic review.…”

Report of the AACP Educating Clinical Scientists Task Force II

“…However, the year 2007 was significant for Pharmacy PBRNs with an AACP-sponsored conference, ''Embracing the PBRN Model to Improve the Medication Use Process,'' and a publication describing the first primary care pharmacist (PBRN) 57,58 At the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), significant programming was devoted to Pharmacy PBRNs, with a number of papers presented at that conference published in the journal of the Association. [61][62][63] Pharmacy faculty have served as Directors of PBRNs and one PBRN has been formed in a national network of primary care clinics throughout the U.S. also directed by a pharmacy faculty member. These are outstanding opportunities for Pharmacy Practice faculty to assist with T2 research.…”