Performance of Community Pharmacists in Providing Clinical Medication Reviews

Abstract

The community pharmacists beneficially identified most DRPs and suggested many solutions. However, the assessment may underestimate the community pharmacists' abilities, as it relied on the records they kept and was based on a gold standard. While the pharmacists were self-selected, this study provides valuable insight into trained community pharmacists' clinical medication review performance.

Completeness of medication reviews provided by community pharmacists

“…Relatively little is known to what extent community pharmacists are able to identify DRPs in medication review . In particular, no research has been performed into the clinical relevance of these DRPs.…”

Medication Therapy Management and Complex Patients With Disability

“…The number of DTPs (mean of 1.9) that pharmacists identified was toward the lower end of the range reported in prior studies, which have found 0.8 to 4.2 DTPs per patient annually. [16][17][18][19][20][21] However, the study population was taking a large number of medications and had a high prevalence of ADEs relative to the general US population. 22,23 In contrast to prior studies, pharmacists were required to meet with all study patients.…”

The French Society of Clinical Pharmacy ACT-IP© project: Ten years onward, results and prospects

“…Rare are the studies of the performance of the pharmacist within the framework of the analysis of drug prescriptions. Most foreigners are concerned with the community pharmacy exercise with the exception of only one [62][63][64][65][66]. One of them highlighted that the frequency of intervention could vary by a factor from one to ten from one pharmacist to another [64].…”