Introduction While pharmacists in other countries have broad independent prescribing
privileges, pharmacists in the United States are making progress. Pharmacist prescriptive …

Objectives The rising cost of health care, impact of the aging population, physician
shortages, and access to care issues have stressed the US health care system. There is no …

Recently momentum has been building behind pharmacist prescriptive authority for certain
products such as oral contraceptives or naloxone. To some, prescriptive authority by …

Pharmacists in all states have prescriptive authority in some form. We identify two broad
categories of pharmacist prescribing: dependent and independent. There are gradients …

Background A number of jurisdictions, both in Canada and internationally, have recently
expanded pharmacists' scope of practice to allow prescriptive authority. Objective To …

Authority to prescribe medications has been considered the next step in the trajectory for the
pharmacy profession for many decades. First pioneered in the United States, prescribing by …

Background: While pharmacists are trained in the selection and management of prescription
medicines, traditionally their role in prescribing has been limited. In the past 5 years, many …

Abstract Objectives To describe Washington State's successful legal and legislative efforts to
gain pharmacist medical provider status and major medical compensation and to compare …

Pharmacist prescriptive authority continues to increase at the state level in the United States.
Recently, the Idaho Board of Pharmacy (BOP) finalized regulations that expanded …

Pharmacists across Canada have varying degrees of ability to prescribe medications
depending on their jurisdiction of licensure. The purpose of this study was to the evaluate …