Strategies to facilitate the implementation of collaborative practice agreements in chain community pharmacies

Community pharmacist-led clinical services: physician's understanding, perceptions and readiness to collaborate in a Midwestern state in the United States†

“…[3] Community pharmacists have the training, competency and ability to expand their role and make a positive impact on US health care through collaboration with physicians. [9][10][11][12][13] Alkhateeb et al [14] examined the attitude of physician's towards CPA and their expectations from pharmacist. These include traditional pharmacist-led services, such as education and counselling on medications and devices, medication therapy management (MTM) services including comprehensive medication reviews, biometric health screenings, smoking cessation, and vaccine administration, as well as services which are delivered by pharmacists in collaboration with physicians, such as disease state education and management programmes.…”

Unrealized potential and unrecognized value: Community‐based pharmacy practice is reinventing itself—Join the movement

“…This is a challenge of scaling the practice and solving structural limitations of documentation, interoperability, and payment as noted above. Experience with the implementation of pharmacist‐provided care in the community is growing, allowing research and guides to be shared to provide guidance on how to scale the practice and how pharmacists in the community can enter into collaborative practice agreements to further expand this clinical care to patients …”

“…Experience with the implementation of pharmacist-provided care in the community is growing, allowing research and guides to be shared to provide guidance on how to scale the practice [40][41][42][43] and how pharmacists in the community can enter into collaborative practice agreements to further expand this clinical care to patients. 44,45 CPESN USA was born out of CCNC specifically for the purpose of 1.7 | Call to action: let us work together to achieve patient access to pharmacist-provided care…”

Implementation Science to Advance Care Delivery: A Primer for Pharmacists and Other Health Professionals

“…In the pharmacy practice implementation science literature, controlled implementation trials are uncommon but on the rise. 55,56 There are far more quasi-experimental and purely descriptive observational studies of implementation. The accumulation of studies using these "less rigorous" designs generate learnings and tools that are foundational for replication and scaling of interventions.…”