• J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Dec 2018

    Implementation of a Clinical Pharmacist Service in the Hospice Setting: Financial and Clinical Impacts.

    • Christopher Richter.
    • a Christopher Richter, PharmD, is with Haven: Advanced Illness Care , Gainesville , Florida , USA .
    • J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. 2018 Dec 1; 32 (4): 256-259.

    AbstractHospice is a unique environment among all clinical fields of practice. Although every other specialty aims to work toward a curative goal or prevention of mortality, hospice completely redirects focus solely on pain and symptom management and sustaining the highest quality of life possible. Addition of a clinical pharmacist to the interdisciplinary group (IDG) is not common, but Haven: Advanced Illness Care added a clinical pharmacist to the team in 2017. Substantial financial impacts were made in the first year, and clinical impacts were well regarded by physicians and nurses. A cost savings of $427,705 was observed, and the clinical pharmacist provided a great deal of expertise to the IDG. Adding a clinical pharmacist to the IDG of other hospice organizations may prove to be a worthy investment.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…