Effectiveness of a Pharmacist-Physician Team-Based Collaboration to Improve Long-Term Blood Pressure Control at an Inner-City Safety-Net Clinic

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 342-347

  Sisson, Evan M ^a   Dixon, Dave L ^a   Kildow, D Cole ^b   Van Tassell, Benjamin W ^a   Carl, Daniel E ^c   Varghese, Della ^a   Electricwala, Batul ^a   Carroll, Norman V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Franciscan Hammond Clinic   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

collaborative practice; hypertension; pharmacists; physicians

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERHOSPITAL COOPERATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OBESITY; PHARMACIST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; URBAN POPULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; COOPERATION; DRUG EFFECTS; HYPERTENSION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIRGINIA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT STUDIES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHARMACISTS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; URBAN POPULATION; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84961680256     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: 18759114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phar.1710     Document Type: Article

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