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Pharmacist Avoidance Or Reductions In Medical Costs In Critically Ill Adults: Pharm-Crit Study, Megan A. Rech, Payal K. Gurnani, William J. Peppard, Keaton S. Smetana, Megan A. Van Berkel, Drayton A. Hammond, Alexander H. Flannery

Pharmacy Practice and Science Faculty Publications

OBJECTIVES: To comprehensively classify interventions performed by ICU clinical pharmacists and quantify cost avoidance generated through their accepted interventions.

DESIGN: A multicenter, prospective, observational study was performed between August 2018 and January 2019.

SETTING: Community hospitals and academic medical centers in the United States.

PARTICIPANTS: ICU clinical pharmacists.

INTERVENTIONS: Recommendations classified into one of 38 intervention categories (divided into six unique sections) associated with cost avoidance.

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Two-hundred fifteen ICU pharmacists at 85 centers performed 55,926 interventions during 3,148 shifts that were accepted on 27,681 adult patient days and generated $23,404,089 of cost avoidance. The quantity of …

Pharmacist Avoidance Or Reductions In Medical Costs In Patients Presenting The Emergency Department: Pharm-Em Study, Megan A. Rech, William Adams, Keaton S. Smetana, Payal K. Gurnani, Megan A. Van Berkel Patel, William J. Peppard, Drayton A. Hammond, Alexander H. Flannery, Pharm-Em Investigators On Behalf Of The Society Of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Pharmacy And Pharmacology Section And Endorsed By The Discovery Network

Pharmacy Practice and Science Faculty Publications

Objectives:
To comprehensively classify interventions performed by emergency medicine clinical pharmacists and quantify cost avoidance generated through their accepted interventions.

Design:
A multicenter, prospective, observational study was performed between August 2018 and January 2019.

Setting:
Community and academic hospitals in the United States.

Participants:
Emergency medicine clinical pharmacists.

Interventions:
Recommendations classified into one of 38 intervention categories associated with cost avoidance.

Measurements and Main Results:
Eighty-eight emergency medicine pharmacists at 49 centers performed 13,984 interventions during 917 shifts that were accepted on 8,602 patients and generated $7,531,862 of cost avoidance. The quantity of accepted interventions and cost avoidance generated in …

Chain Community Pharmacists' Willingness, Attitudes, And Barriers In Providing Self-Care Medication And Supplement Recommendations, Clark Kebodeaux, William M. Grise, Brooke Hudspeth, Holly Divine

Pharmacy Practice and Science Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Pharmacists are commonly called on as the first resource for patients when selecting an appropriate self-care medication or supplement. This study examines pharmacists’ over-the-counter (OTC) recommendations in the chain community pharmacy setting in the United States.

OBJECTIVES: The objective of the study was to assess chain community pharmacists’ willingness and attitudes to provide self-care recommendations to patients and to identify chain community pharmacists’ barriers to making OTC medication and supplement recommendations.

METHODS: An anonymous survey was created to identify pharmacists’ attitudes and their willingness to perform these recommendations. The questionnaire included specific questions to identify barriers that exist to …