Pharmacist-participated medication review in different practice settings: Service or intervention? An overview of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medication review (MR) is a pharmacy practice conducted in different settings that has a positive impact on patient health outcomes. In this context, systematic reviews on MR have restricted the assessment of this practice using criteria such as methodological quality, practice settings, and patient outcomes. Therefore, expanding research on this subject is necessary to facilitate the understanding of the effectiveness of MR and the comparison of its results.

Aim

To examine the panorama of systematic reviews on pharmacist-participated MR in different practice settings.

Methods

A literature search was undertaken in Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), Embase, PubMed, Scopus, The Cochrane Library, and Web of Science databases through January 2018 using keywor

SUBMITTER: Silva ROS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6328162 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature