Pharmacist hypertension management using an electronic health record-based approach.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of the chronic medication optimization pharmacist (CMOP) program on blood pressure (BP) control and time to goal compared with usual care in the ambulatory care setting.

Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort study that included patients from June 2018 to June 2020 who were seen in an ambulatory care clinic for hypertension management.

Methods: Patients aged 18 to 80 years were divided into 2 cohorts based on hypertension management by usual care or the CMOP program.

Quality assurance processes for standardized patient programs.

Our Problem: As the pharmacy profession evolves to include non-dispensing services and collaborative care, greater emphasis is placed on communication skills building through standardized patient programs. Best practices for assuring the quality of standardized patient (SP) programs, however, remains unclear. The objective of this manuscript is to summarize quality assurance processes for standardized patient programs from health professions education literature.