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

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Department of Pharmacotherapy, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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Intermountain Pharmacy Services, Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT 84102, USA
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Pharmacy 2020, 8(3), 136; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8030136
Received: 17 June 2020 / Revised: 24 July 2020 / Accepted: 25 July 2020 / Published: 1 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Embedded Pharmacists in Primary Care)
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 were completed from U of U Health, and nine were completed from Intermountain. Thirty-two of the 86 survey questions resulted in a high level of support, and 25 questions resulted in a low level of support from the majority of respondents. Statistically significant differences between the institutions were found for 18 questions. The utilization of the PMAT within two Utah health systems highlighted areas of excellence and improvement and demonstrates a unique method for analysis of PMAT results. View Full-Text
Keywords: comprehensive medications management; practice management; ambulatory care; primary care; clinical pharmacy comprehensive medications management; practice management; ambulatory care; primary care; clinical pharmacy
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Turner, K.; Abbinanti, A.; Winter, B.; Berrett, B.; Olson, J.; Cox, N. How a State Measures Up: Ambulatory Care Pharmacists’ Perception of Practice Management Systems for Comprehensive Medication Management in Utah. Pharmacy 2020, 8, 136. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8030136

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Turner K, Abbinanti A, Winter B, Berrett B, Olson J, Cox N. How a State Measures Up: Ambulatory Care Pharmacists’ Perception of Practice Management Systems for Comprehensive Medication Management in Utah. Pharmacy. 2020; 8(3):136. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8030136

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Turner, Kyle, Alan Abbinanti, Bradly Winter, Benjamin Berrett, Jeff Olson, and Nicholas Cox. 2020. "How a State Measures Up: Ambulatory Care Pharmacists’ Perception of Practice Management Systems for Comprehensive Medication Management in Utah" Pharmacy 8, no. 3: 136. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8030136

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