Integrating Family Medicine and Pharmacy to Advance Primary Care Therapeutics
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2006-07-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Recent health policy documents have endorsed an integrated model of collaboration between
pharmacists and physicians in primary care. The integration of pharmacists into primary care
has been identified as a priority for primary health care reform in Canada. However, the best
way to do this has not been demonstrated or evaluated. This demonstration project shows the
various ways in which pharmacists can be trained and integrated into different family
practice settings, the processes and costs associated with doing this, and the outcomes
observed. The main hypothesis is that pharmacist integration into family practice will
optimize medication use, clinical care and clinical outcomes. This information provides
policy makers with necessary information about collaboration between pharmacists and family
physicians for their overall goal of reforming the delivery of primary health care to the
population.