The Addition of Pharmacists on a Patient Care Team to Improve Diabetic Patient Outcomes

Heather Marie Pol

doi:10.4236/pp.2019.101002

Abstract

As diabetes becomes more prevalent throughout the United States, there is an increased demand for healthcare providers and healthcare resources. Pharmacists have started to collaborate with primary care providers, and through this collaboration, pharmacists are able to augment patient care and provide additional resources to diabetic patients. This essay reviews the effect of one clinic that incorporates pharmacist interventions as an addition to established patient care teams, and evaluates the effect that the pharmacist interventions have on patient hemoglobin A1C%. While this essay provides data to show the positive benefits of pharmacist intervention on diabetes patients and A1C% goals, additional data and research are needed to demonstrate how pharmacists are a necessary addition to patient care teams.

Highlights

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommends a goal of 7.0% for most nonpregnant adult diabetic patients but permits providers to modify this goal based on patient characteristics and risk factors for diabetic complications [6]
The observations for this essay were obtained by comparing data between the patients enrolled in the pharmacist diabetes clinic and a control group or patients who were not enrolled in the pharmacist diabetes clinic
C vention through the pharmacist diabetes clinic had an average of 0.5 A1C percentage point improvement higher than the group of patients that did not receive pharmacist intervention, but this difference was not statistically significant

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