Pharmacists Can Spur Switch to Recommended Drugs for Diabetes Patients With CVD
ANAHEIM, Calif. — A pharmacist-led intervention using notes in the electronic health record (EHR) proved effective for convincing primary care providers to switch veterans with diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) to guideline-recommended care, a single-center VA-study showed. A total of 180 recommendations were made by pharmacists in the EHRs of 102 patients. Of those, 23 […]
Pharmacist-Led Hypertension Clinics Able to Lower BP Within Weeks
SAN DIEGO — Across the country, nurse- and pharmacist-led hypertension clinics consistently found it feasible to get blood pressures (BPs) at or close to goal quickly — within a matter of weeks, even — according to single-center reports. In posters presented here at the annual Hypertension Scientific Sessions hosted by the American Heart Association, researchers […]