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Role of the pharmacist in reducing healthcare costs: current insights

Overview of attention for article published in Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice, January 2017
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Title
Role of the pharmacist in reducing healthcare costs: current insights
Published in
Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice, January 2017
DOI 10.2147/iprp.s108047
Pubmed ID
Authors

Kieran Dalton, Stephen Byrne

Abstract

Global healthcare expenditure is escalating at an unsustainable rate. Money spent on medicines and managing medication-related problems continues to grow. The high prevalence of medication errors and inappropriate prescribing is a major issue within healthcare systems, and can often contribute to adverse drug events, many of which are preventable. As a result, there is a huge opportunity for pharmacists to have a significant impact on reducing healthcare costs, as they have the expertise to detect, resolve, and prevent medication errors and medication-related problems. The development of clinical pharmacy practice in recent decades has resulted in an increased number of pharmacists working in clinically advanced roles worldwide. Pharmacist-provided services and clinical interventions have been shown to reduce the risk of potential adverse drug events and improve patient outcomes, and the majority of published studies show that these pharmacist activities are cost-effective or have a good cost:benefit ratio. This review demonstrates that pharmacists can contribute to substantial healthcare savings across a variety of settings. However, there is a paucity of evidence in the literature highlighting the specific aspects of pharmacists' work which are the most effective and cost-effective. Future high-quality economic evaluations with robust methodologies and study design are required to investigate what pharmacist services have significant clinical benefits to patients and substantiate the greatest cost savings for healthcare budgets.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 463 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 78 17%
Student > Bachelor 54 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 28 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 6%
Researcher 25 5%
Other 89 19%
Unknown 163 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 140 30%
Medicine and Dentistry 33 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 7%
Unspecified 20 4%
Social Sciences 11 2%
Other 54 12%
Unknown 174 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 December 2022.
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#1,084,726
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Outputs from Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice
#5
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#23,908
of 426,228 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice
#2
of 7 outputs
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