Role of the pharmacist in reducing healthcare costs: current insights

K Dalton, S Byrne - Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Global healthcare expenditure is escalating at an unsustainable rate. Money spent on
medicines and managing medication-related problems continues to grow. The high …

Impact of medication reconciliation for improving transitions of care

P Redmond, TC Grimes, R McDonnell… - Cochrane Database …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Transitional care provides for the continuity of care as patients move between
different stages and settings of care. Medication discrepancies arising at care transitions …

Effect of an in-hospital multifaceted clinical pharmacist intervention on the risk of readmission: a randomized clinical trial

LV Ravn-Nielsen, ML Duckert, ML Lund… - JAMA internal …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Hospital readmissions are common among patients receiving multiple
medications, with considerable costs to the patients and society. Objective To determine …

Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy

M Molokhia, A Majeed - BMC Family Practice, 2017 - Springer
Background Because of ageing populations, the growth in the number of people with multi-
morbidity and greater compliance with disease-specific guidelines, polypharmacy is …

Pharmacist-led educational interventions provided to healthcare providers to reduce medication errors: A systematic review and meta-analysis

M Jaam, LM Naseralallah, TA Hussain, SA Pawluk - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Medication errors are avoidable events that can occur at any stage of the
medication use process. They are widespread in healthcare systems and are linked to an …

Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in the community after hospital discharge

D McNab, P Bowie, A Ross, G MacWalter… - BMJ quality & …, 2018 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background Pharmacists' completion of medication reconciliation in the community after
hospital discharge is intended to reduce harm due to prescribed or omitted medication and …

The best person (or machine) for the job: Rethinking task shifting in healthcare

MCI Van Schalkwyk, A Bourek, DS Kringos, L Siciliani… - Health policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Globally, health systems are faced with the difficult challenge of how to get the best results
with the often limited number of health workers available to them. Exacerbating this …

Clinically relevant drug-drug interactions in primary care

M Carpenter, H Berry, AL Pelletier - American family physician, 2019 - aafp.org
Drug interactions are common in the primary care setting and are usually predictable.
Identifying the most important and clinically relevant drug interactions in primary care is …

Do pharmacist‐led medication reviews in hospitals help reduce hospital readmissions? A systematic review and meta‐analysis

P Renaudin, L Boyer, MA Esteve… - British journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aims The aim of this meta‐analysis is to examine the impact of in‐hospital pharmacist‐led
medication reviews in paediatric and adult patients. Methods Relevant studies were …

Pharmacotherapy and the role of pharmacists in rehabilitation medicine

Y Yoshimura, A Matsumoto… - Progress in rehabilitation …, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Pharmacotherapy is important in older patients undergoing rehabilitation because such
patients, especially those with frailty and physical disabilities, are susceptible to drug-related …