Implementation and outcomes of an ambulatory care pharmacist service: Application of an implementation science framework.

Purpose: As teams work to optimize the pharmacist's role on care teams, it is important to be proactive and strategic during the service creation process. Implementation science frameworks can help guide pharmacists as they work to translate evidence-based interventions into practice.

Summary: When a care gap in respiratory chronic disease state management in the primary care setting was identified, a team was created to investigate whether an ambulatory care pharmacist service would be a valuable way to address the care gap.

Ambulatory care pharmacy practice: Findings from the 2019 National Pharmacist Workforce Survey.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the demographics, training, clinical specialties, and practice activities of ambulatory care pharmacists using data from the 2019 National Pharmacist Workforce Study (NPWS).

Summary: The 2019 NPWS was conducted using a 3-contact electronic survey sent to a random sample of 94,803 pharmacists using the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Foundation e-Profile system. The 2019 NPWS had a response rate of 67.

Immediate effect of pain neuroscience education for recent onset low back pain: an exploratory single arm trial.

: A prospective, single-arm, pre-postintervention study.: To determine the preliminary usefulness of providing pain neuroscience education (PNE) on improving pain and movement in patients presenting with non-chronic mechanical low back pain (LBP).: PNE has been shown to be an effective intervention for the treatment of chronic LBP but its usefulness in patients with non-chronic LBP has not been examined.