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Alerts [mailto:policy_alerts@list.ashp.org] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, December 15, 2009
11:33 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Shannon Kolman<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Pharmacist-Physician
Collaboration Improves Blood Pressure, Study Finds</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Clinical pharmacists’
medication therapy recommendations for patients with uncontrolled
hypertension to the patients’ community-based physicians resulted in
controlled blood pressure for 63.9% of intervention group patients, compared
to 29.9% of control group patients, according to a study published in the
November 23, 2009, <em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Archives
of Internal Medicine</span></font></i></em>.<sup>1</sup></span></font><font
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>“The intervention
pharmacists made 771 recommendations, of which 742 (96.2%) were accepted by
physicians,” the study found. Of the 1,139 documented antihypertensive
medication changes, 49.3% were for new medications, 29.2% were for increasing
medication dosages, 17.1% were for stopping current medications, and 4.3%
were for decreasing medication dosages.</span></font><font size=1
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The study enrolled 402
patients at six <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iowa</st1:place></st1:State>
medical offices and was conducted over six months. The pharmacists
involved in the study held doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degrees, and had
completed a pharmacy residency in primary care.</span></font><font size=1
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study is available at <a
href="http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/169/21/1996?home"><font
color=purple><span style='color:purple'>http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/169/21/1996?home</span></font></a></span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>1. Carter BL,
Ardery G, Dawson JD et al. Physician and pharmacist collaboration to improve
blood pressure control. <em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'>Arch Intern Med.</span></font></i></em> 2009; 169: 1996-2002.</span></font><font
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