Corrigendum: Rationale and Design of a Pharmacist-led Intervention for the Risk-Based Prevention of Heart Failure: The FIT-HF Pilot Study.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.

Rationale and Design of a Pharmacist-led Intervention for the Risk-Based Prevention of Heart Failure: The FIT-HF Pilot Study.

Given rising morbidity, mortality, and costs due to heart failure (HF), new approaches for prevention are needed. A quantitative risk-based strategy, in line with established guidelines for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease prevention, may efficiently select patients most likely to benefit from intensification of preventive care, but a risk-based strategy has not yet been applied to HF prevention. The Feasibility of the Implementation of Tools for Heart Failure Risk Prediction (FIT-HF) pilot study will enroll 100 participants free of cardiovascular disease who receive primary care at a single integrated health system and have a 10-year predicted risk of HF of ≥5% based on the previously validated Pooled Cohort equations to Prevent Heart Failure.

Role of the specialty pharmacist in public health: A focus on sharps disposal.

An intersection of the pharmacy profession and public health is the role of the specialty pharmacist. The specialty pharmacist is in a unique position to prevent unnecessary financial burden on the health care system by preventing community-acquired needlestick injuries through patient education regarding the proper disposal of sharps. Many specialty medications are injectable agents with varying injection frequencies ranging from multiple injections per day to 1 dose per year.