Abstract
The most valuable lessons to be learned from the federally funded evaluation of Health Care Innovation Award–winning medication management programs lie not in the statistical information but in the qualitative findings, say two pharmacy researchers. “We have another case of trying to evaluate an innovation but [using a method that] really wasn’t designed to evaluate what the innovation was intended to do,” said Todd D. Sorensen, a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy in Minneapolis. Gary R. Matzke, coprincipal investigator for one of the awarding-winning programs, said he would not interpret the results of the evaluation—which found few statistical differences in outcomes with the use of medication management services—as a negative verdict on the value of pharmacy interventions. Rather, the evaluation’s quantitative findings point to “the extreme importance” of analyzing “the entirety of the data,” said Matzke, a professor in the Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcome Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy in Richmond.
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