Impact of Pharmacists in the Community Setting

Dear Colleagues,

The community pharmacy setting presents both a challenge in providing direct patient care services, given the lack of streamlined infrastructure and time; as well as an opportunity in terms of pharmacist touch points. Pharmacists have made great strides in patient care in the community setting in recent years. Examples include disease management, medication therapy management and, more recently, comprehensive medication management and transitions of care. Along the way, various innovative interventions have emerged such as teach back techniques and medication synchronization that have helped improve medication use processes and outcomes for patients.

We have a Special Issue focused on the impact pharmacists have made in the community setting in terms of innovations. We invite you and your colleagues to work on an article for this Special Issue. We welcome both pilot studies with preliminary evidence, as well as completed research studies, examining recent innovative interventions of pharmacists that improve patient medication taking behavior and/or outcomes, methods that increase patient engagement in these services, models that improve communication and collaboration between prescribers and the community pharmacy, changing and emerging roles of pharmacists and their impact on patient care, policy changes that have affected practice and the development of new services, patient and prescriber’s perceptions of pharmacist interventions in the community setting.

Prof. Dr. Anandi Law
Dr. Micah Hata
Guest Editors

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