Clinical Pharmacy Services in Heart Failure: An Opinion Paper From the Heart Failure Society of America and American College of Clinical Pharmacy Cardiology Practice and Research Network

The Pharmacist Role in Predicting and Improving Medication Adherence in Heart Failure Patients

“…Pharmacists are well suited to optimize drug therapy regimens, identify barriers to medication adherence, and develop ways to address, as well as educate, patients and the health care team about medication-related topics. 16 Pharmacist involvement in the management of these patients has been shown to reduce HF hospitalizations, with trends towards a reduction in mortality. 17 Literature is scarce on instruments that clinicians can use to identify patients at risk for medication nonadherence.…”

Multidisciplinary Management of Chronic Heart Failure: Principles and Future Trends

“…There is a move to credentialing heart failure specialists across professional groups to ensure health professionals are competent to provide care. 42,43 This move is likely an important step in clarifying the roles and scope of practice of individuals on the CHF team.…”

The Clinical Pharmacists Main Focus

“…But observing the literature cited in this paper we can see that today (as well as in past) the clinical outcomes is better obtained adding the pharmaceutical competencies to the clinicians works and this presence is the medical team is request to improve some clinical outcome [2][3][4]7,[12][13][14].…”