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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.
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