Early Implementation of Comprehensive Medication Management within an Academic Medical Center Primary Care Pharmacy Team.

Introduction: University of Utah Health is an academic health care system that serves residents in Utah and beyond. Clinical pharmacists with the health care system's pharmacy primary care services (PPCS) team provide medication education, population-based care, and medication management through collaborative practice agreements. With the expansion of clinical pharmacist and technician positions and services, the need to measure and assess the impact of pharmacy services and create a value proposition for internal and external stakeholders became an important goal, and the decision was made to better align practices across all PPCS sites.

Utilizing a 3S (strategies, source and setting) approach to understand the patient's preferences when addressing medication non-adherence in patients with diabetes: a focus group study in a primary outpatient clinic.

Objective: Non-adherence with diabetes medicines is a challenge. Approximately 54% of patients are non-adherent with their diabetes medicines. The objective of this study was to understand patients' preferences when addressing non-adherence based on the 3S approach-strategies (what approaches can be used in addressing non-adherence), settings (when and where should the intervention happen) and sources (who should provide the intervention).