How a State Measures Up: Ambulatory Care Pharmacists' Perception of Practice Management Systems for Comprehensive Medication Management in Utah.

ABSTRACT: Comprehensive medication management (CMM) is a patient-centered standard of care that ensures a patient's medications are optimized. The CMM Practice Management Assessment Tool (PMAT) is a tool to assess areas of CMM practice management. The purpose of this project was to assess the state of CMM practice management based on clinical pharmacist perception for two health systems in the state of Utah, and to identify areas of excellence and/or improvement utilizing a novel method for PMAT analysis. The PMAT was distributed to all primary care-focused ambulatory care pharmacists employed by University of Utah Health (U of U Health) and Intermountain Healthcare (Intermountain). Ordinal responses were assigned to three possible categories of CMM support (High, Indifferent, and Low). Ten surveys

SUBMITTER: Turner K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7559078 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature