Medication Management References

Recent Selected Policy and Research References

(peer-reviewed health policy, medical, and pharmacy journals)

  Medication Management and Care Coordination Issues:
Pharmacist/Interprofessional Team Effects, Processes, and Value

Chisholm-Burns, MA, Lee, JK, Spivey, CA, Slack, M, et.al. US Pharmacists’ Effect as Team Members on Patient Care: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses. Med Care, 2010;48:923-933. (October 2010).

Chisholm-Burns, MA, Zivin, JS, Lee, JK, Spivey, CA et.al. Economic effects of pharmacists on health outcomes in the US: a systematic review. Am J Health-Syst Pharm, 2010;67:1624-1634. (October 15, 2010)

Nkansah N, Mostovetsky O, Yu C, Chheng T, Beney J, Bond CM, Bero L. Effect of outpatient pharmacists’ non-dispensing roles on patient outcomes and prescribing patterns (Review). The Cochrane Collaboration. Issue # 7 2010. (accessed at www.thecochranlibrary.com)      

Steinman, MA, Hanlon, JT.  Managing medications in clinically complex elders. “There’s got to be a happy medium.”  JAMA, 2010;304(14):1592-1601. (October 13, 2010)

Avorn, J. Medication use in older patients – better policy could encourage better practice. JAMA, 2010;304(14):1606-1607. (October 13, 2010)

Weber, CA, Ernst, ME, Sezate, GS, Zheng, S, Carter, BL. Pharmacist-physician co-management of hypertension and reduction in 24-hour ambulatory blood pressures. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(18):1634-1639. (October 11, 2010)

Smith, MA, Bates, DW, Bodenheimer, T, Cleary, PD. Why pharmacists belong in the medical home. Health Affairs, 2010;29(5):906-913. (May 2010)

Cutler, DM, Everett, W. Thinking outside the pillbox – medication adherence as a priority for health care reform. N Engl J Med, 2010;362(17):1553-1555. (April 29, 2010)

Parekh, AK, Barton, MB. The challenge of multiple comorbidity for the US health care system. JAMA, 2010;303(13):1303-1304. (April 7, 2010)

De Oliveira, DR, Brummel, AR, Miller DB. Medication therapy management: 10 years experience in a large integrated health care system. J Manag Care Pharm. 2010:16(3):185-195. (April 2010)

Carter, BL, Rogers, M, Daly, J, Zheng, S, James, PA. The potency of team-based care interventions for hypertension – a meta analysis. Arch Intern Med; 169(19):1748-1755. (October 2009)

Fera T., Bluml BM, Ellis WM.  Diabetes Ten City challenge:  Final economic and clinical results.  J Am Pharm Assoc 2009, 49;383-91. 

Roughead EE, Barratt JD, Ramsay E et al.  The effectiveness of collaborative medicine reviews in delaying time to next hospitalization for patients with heart failure in the practice setting.  Results of a cohort study.  Circ Heart Fail.  2009;2:424-8.  

Isetts, BJ, Schondelmeyer, SW, Artz, MB, Lenarz, LA, et.al. Clinical and economic outcomes of medication therapy management services: the Minnesota experience.  J Am Pharm Assoc 2008; 48(2):203-211. (March/April 2008)

Nichol A., Downs, G., The pharmacist as physician extender in family medicine office practice.  JAmPharmAssoc.  2006;46:77-83.

Bunting BA, Cranor CW.  The Asheville project:  long term, clinical, humanistic, and economic outcomes of a community based medication therapy management program for asthma.  J Am Pharm. Assoc 2006;46:133-47

Cipolle, Strand, Morley.  Pharmaceutical care practice:  The clinician’s guide.  McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Cranor, CW, Bunting BA, Christensen DB.  The Asheville Project:  Long term clinical and economic outcomes of a community pharmacy diabetes care program.  J Am Pharm Assoc 2003;43:173-84. 

Grizzle, A.J.  Drug-related morbidity and mortality:  Updating the cost-of-illness model.  J Am Pharm Assoc 2001;41(2):192-199

Isetts BJ.  Evaluating effectiveness of the Minnesota medication therapy management care program.  Final report.  Available at:  http://www.dhs.state.mn.s/main/groups/buiness_partners/documents/pub/dhs16_140283.pdf.