Pharmacy service alliances: a tool to reduce uncertainty and create new revenue streams.
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.
Doucette
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College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA. william-doucette@uiowa.edu
Pithan
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McDonough
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D007484:Iowa; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010595:Pharmacists