Expansion and Evaluation of Pharmacist Services in Primary Care.

Challenges with primary care access and overextended providers present opportunities for pharmacists as patient care extenders for chronic disease management. The primary objective was to align primary care pharmacist services with organizational priorities and improve patient clinical outcomes. The secondary objective was to develop a technological strategy for service evaluation.

A multicenter quality improvement initiative on the impact of pharmacists' postdischarge follow-up to reduce medication-related acute care episodes.

Purpose: This multicenter quality improvement initiative aims to measure and quantify pharmacists' impact on reducing medication-related acute care episodes (MACEs) for high-risk patients at an increased risk for readmission due to drug-related problems (DRPs).

Methods: This was a prospective, multicenter quality improvement initiative conducted at 9 academic medical centers. Each participant implemented a standardized methodology for evaluating MACE likelihood to demonstrate the impact of pharmacist postdischarge follow-up (PDFU).

Inpatient pharmacists' patient referrals to a transitions-of-care pharmacist: Evaluation of an automated referral process.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a pharmacist screening and automated referral process that identifies patients at risk for readmission due to medication-related problems (MRPs).

Setting: University of Wisconsin (UW) Hospital is 505-bed flagship hospital that is part of UW Health, an academic health system.

Practice Description: The integrated pharmacy practice model at UW Health has inpatient pharmacists who perform discharge medication reconciliation.