Background The roles of pharmacists in patient care have expanded from the traditional
tasks of dispensing medications and providing basic medication counseling to working with …

Background: Clinical guidelines aim to improve the safety and quality of patient care by
providing clinicians with graded recommendations based on evidence of best practice …

Background Hyperlipidemia increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, and control is
pivotal ror preventing disease complications. Multidisciplinary interventions, including those …

Background Managed care organizations use a variety of strategies to reduce the cost and
improve the quality of medication use. The effectiveness of such policies is not well …

Background Numerous implementation strategies to improve utilization of statins in patients
with hypercholesterolemia have been utilized, with varying degrees of success. The aim of …

FOR CHRONIC MEDICAL CONDITIONS, SUCH AS HYPER-cholesterolemia and
hypertension, a wide and per-sistent separation exists between evidence-based …

Background: Despite the well-known beneficial effects of statins, many patients do not
adhere to chronic medication regimens. Objective: To implement and assess the …

We compared cardiovascular disease outcomes according to the presence of peripheral
arterial disease (PAD) at baseline in a post hoc analysis from the PROactive study. Of the …

In the week before Hurricane Katrina's landfall in August 2005, emergency management
officials in Jefferson County (Birmingham), Alabama, began to make plans for the potential …

Background: Few studies have reported the efficacy of collaborative care involving family
physicians and community pharmacists for patients with dyslipidemia. Methods: We …