title: Pharmacy service alliances: a tool to reduce uncertainty and create new revenue streams.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  (1) Present conceptual support for a type of pharmacy network, a pharmacy service alliance (PSA), (2) describe the development of a PSA in eastern Iowa, and (3) discuss how other types of PSAs can be developed.
  
  
  METHODS
  12 independent pharmacies in eastern Iowa.
  
  
  METHODS
  Community pharmacy practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  Formation of a PSA.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Pharmacy members of the Certified Pharmaceutical Care Network, a PSA, have jointly developed new pharmacy services. Collaborative efforts have involved disease state management programs, group marketing activities, and a quality improvement process.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  PSAs offer an organizational model that pharmacies could use to successfully develop new pharmacy services.
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA. william-doucette@uiowa.edu
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Doucette
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Pithan
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: McDonough
mesh_terms: D007484:Iowa; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010595:Pharmacists