Elizabeth Hall-Lipsy

TL;DR: Favorable results were found in therapeutic and safety outcomes, and meta-analyses conducted for hemoglobin A1c, LDL cholesterol, blood pressure, and adverse drug events were significant, favoring pharmacists' direct patient care over comparative services.

TL;DR: A majority of studies examining the economic effects of pharmacist-provided direct patient care in the United States were limited by their partial cost analyses, study design, and other analysis considerations; a majority of the 20 studies that found positive economic benefits examined pharmacists' interventions involving technical methods or multimodal approaches.

TL;DR: A literature review revealed significant disparities in the medication treatment received by racial and ethnic minorities and women and the negative health outcomes associated with these differences.

TL;DR: Study results provide initial evidence to support the efficacy of collaborative efforts in the provision of MTM services for improving health indicators and safety measures while potentially reducing health care disparities.

TL;DR: The cases with published legal outcomes found limited professional liability for clinicians who prescribed cephalosporins or carbapenems to a patient with a known penicillin allergy may decrease the litigation fears of practitioners and risk managers within health care systems.