Pre-post assessment of student application of medication therapy management skills in virtual environments using English and non-English patients.

Background And Purpose: A Medication Therapy Management (MTM) encounter allows pharmacists to gather information to make appropriate assessments and recommendations regardless of the patient's language needs and the encounter environment utilized. With the goal of improving comfort and confidence in providing MTM services, working with an interpreter, and providing care in a virtual environment, students participated in a virtual MTM activity with English and non-English speaking patients.

Educational Activity And Setting: In groups, students completed two MTM encounters during a virtual skills laboratory.

Pharmacist medication reviews to improve safety monitoring in primary care patients.

Objective: Patients prescribed psychotropic medications within primary care are at risk of suboptimal monitoring. It is unknown whether pharmacists can improve medication safety through targeted monitoring of at risk populations. Access Community Health Centers implemented a quality improvement pilot project that included pharmacists on an integrated care team to provide medication reviews for patients.

Screening for adverse drug events in older adults: the impact of interventions.

Objective: Primary, to evaluate the usefulness of a comprehensive medication review (CMR) process in screening for adverse drug event (ADE) risk and to measure the impact of pharmacist recommendations; secondary, to evaluate whether screening tools assist in detecting ADEs.

Design: Nonrandomized, prospective pre/post pilot study.

Setting: Wisconsin-based community pharmacy affiliated with a two-campus retirement facility serving independently living older adults.