Pharmacist-Physician Linkages Needed To Improve Chronic Condition Care
Partnerships between physicians and community-based pharmacists are needed to create community-clinical linkages to improve care for consumers with chronic health conditions. In such partnerships, pharmacists go beyond filling prescriptions to provide team-based disease management via pharmacist-directed medication therapy management (MTM), collaborative drug therapy management (CDTM), health assessments, referrals to physicians, or triage into primary care after identifying medication-related problems. Community-clinical linkages can be effective and sustainable without the need for an additional payment because the services provided are often with …
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