Primary Care Academy: lessons learned from a large-scale innovative primary care project.

Introduction And Context: The social and healthcare system faces numerous challenges, with primary care playing a key role in achieving universal and equitable health coverage. However, the primary care field often struggles with limited research capacity, activity, and funding.

The Primary Care Academy: To address these gaps, the Primary Care Academy (PCA) - a large-scale, innovative, interdisciplinary research and networking organization, encompassing then organization in the primary care field, was established and funded in 2019 by the Fund Dr.

The role of large language models in self-care: a study and benchmark on medicines and supplement guidance accuracy.

Background: The recent surge in the capabilities of artificial intelligence systems, particularly large language models, is also impacting the medical and pharmaceutical field in a major way. Beyond specialized uses in diagnostics and data discovery, these tools have now become accessible to the general public.

Aim: The study aimed to critically analyse the current performance of large language models in answering patient's self-care questions regarding medications and supplements.

Use of the BRANT-MERQS scoring table for the quality assessment of type 3 medication review in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and those with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Background: A type 3 medication review (MR3) is a patient-centred medication service primarily provided by pharmacists and is presently employed routinely in several countries. In this process, pharmacists interview patients and collaborate with the treating physician to optimize the patient's pharmacotherapy, taking into account the patient's medication history and other medical data including laboratory values. The need to maintain the quality of such interventions during and after their initial implementation cannot be overstated.

Medication Review: What's in a Name and What Is It about?

Background: Medication review is a multifaceted service aimed at optimizing the use of medicines and enhancing the health outcomes of patients. Due to its complexity, it is crucial to clearly describe the service, its variants, and its components to avoid confusion and ensure a better understanding of medication review among healthcare providers.

Aim: This study aims to bring clarity to the origins, definitions, abbreviations, and types of medication reviews, together with the primary criteria that delineate key features of this service.

A quality improvement study of the implementation and initial results of a pragmatic clinical decision support system in the community pharmacy setting.

Background: A six year collaboration between academics, community pharmacists and informaticians, led to the development of nine guidelines for a clinical decision support system, enhancing community pharmacists' ability to address drug-related problems and improve care.

Aim: The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of clinical decision support system rules in enhancing medication management within the community pharmacy setting. This was achieved through retrospective monitoring of real-world usage and measuring the pharmacotherapeutic impact of the rules.