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Pharmacy-managed program for providing education and discharge instructions for patients with heart failure.
Am J Health Syst Pharm
January 2014
Bruce A. Warden, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Clinical Pharmacist; and Jessica Pryor Freels, Pharm.D., M.S., is Clinical Operations Manager, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Portland. Jon P. Furuno, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Oregon State University/OHSU College of Pharmacy. John Mackay, Pharm.D., BCPS (AQ-Cardiology), is Advanced Heart Failure Clinical Pharmacist, OHSU.
Purpose: The impact of a pharmacy-managed program for providing education and discharge instructions for patients with heart failure (HF) was evaluated.
Methods: A before-and-after quasiexperimental design was used to quantify the effect of a pharmacist-managed HF medication education and discharge instruction program on the incidence of 30-day readmission rates and adherence to targeted Joint Commission core measures for HF (the provision of discharge instructions and the prescribing of an angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor [ACEI]/angiotensin II receptor blocker [ARB] at discharge or documentation of the reason if therapy was not prescribed). Adult patients admitted to Oregon Health and Science University's cardiology unit with systolic HF exacerbation as their primary diagnosis between December 2010 and March 2011 were included.