Establishing Community Pharmacy-Based Anticoagulation Education and Monitoring Programs

A community pharmacist-led anticoagulation management service: attitudes towards a new collaborative model of care in New Zealand†

“…There are some published reports of community‐based AMS involving pharmacists, but these typically describe pilot or small studies. They include hospital outreach services; pharmacist‐led clinics based at general practitioner (GP) surgeries or in primary care clinics; and services based at, or involving, community pharmacies . The reports indicate that potential benefits of community‐based AMS involving pharmacists include improved accessibility and greater convenience for patients, improved anticoagulation control and a reduction of the burden on general practice.…”

Clinical utilization of the international normalized ratio (INR)

“…The value of patient education and self-management in the management of OAT has recently been emphasized (126)(127)(128)(129). Dietary management may be of assistance in poorly controlled patients (130,131).…”

Anticoagulation management by community pharmacists in New Zealand: an evaluation of a collaborative model in primary care

“…They include hospital outreach services, [15] pharmacist-led primary-care clinics [16][17][18][19] and community pharmacy services. [20][21][22][23] In most cases the INR was measured at a centralized laboratory, but some services used point-of-care testing to enable pharmacists to perform INR testing and implement immediate dose adjustments. [15,[18][19][20] This study evaluates the quality of anticoagulation control in a new programme of care, the Community Pharmacy Anticoagulation Management Service (CPAMS), piloted in New Zealand between November 2010 and July 2011.…”