Evaluation of a pharmacist-provider collaborative clinic for treatment of iron deficiency in patients with heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Intravenous iron therapy is recommended to improve symptoms and exercise tolerance in patients with heart failure (HF) with -reduced ejection fraction and iron deficiency (ID), but there are limited published data on the implementation of intravenous iron therapy in practice. A pharmacist-provider collaborative ID treatment clinic was established within an advanced HF and pulmonary hypertension service to optimize IV iron therapy. The objective was to evaluate the clinical impacts of the pharmacist-provider collaborative ID treatment clinic.

Methods

A retrospective cohort study was performed to compare clinical outcomes among patients of the collaborative ID treatment clinic (the postimplementation group) and a cohort of patients who received usual care (the preimple

SUBMITTER: Kido K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10516710 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature