Medication therapy management: Its relationship to patient counseling, disease management, and pharmaceutical care

An Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience Providing Pharmaceutical Care to Elderly Patients

“…1 The incorporation of medication therapy management (MTM) services within the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and the Medicare Prescription Medication Benefit (Part D) presented a strategy for pharmacists to provide and be compensated for pharmaceutical care. [2][3][4] However, MTM is still not being provided in many US communities. Pharmacists and students have cited barriers to implementing pharmacist-provided patient care, including the need for students to practical experience in providing patient care.…”

A Case Study in Terminology: the FIP Pharmacy Education Taskforce

“…9(p150) McGivney et al describe ''medication therapy management'' as driven by the philosophy of pharmaceutical care, but which additionally involves techniques and behaviors such as patient counselling, motivational interviewing, patient education, documentation, follow-up, and interprofessional collaboration. 10 Barber argues that the ideas behind both terms are too limited in view to be sustainable professional philosophies.…”

African-American and Latina Women Seeking Public Health Services: Cultural Beliefs regarding Pregnancy, including Medication-taking Behavior

“…"The commonality among these services is the ability of the pharmacist to provide them and the direct interaction between the pharmacist and the patient 1 ." In the area of women's reproductive health pharmacists have important roles, including providing counseling for oral contraceptives, assessing the effects that changes in maternal physiology during pregnancy may have on the pharmacokinetics of chronic medications, and identifying pregnancy or lactation-contraindicated drugs and [2][3][4] .…”