Sending PharmD candidates to patients' homes can avert potential medication problems.
Pharmacists' home visits avert outpatient medication troubles. Crozer-Keystone Health System in Springfield, PA, has pharmacy students evaluate patients at home to address risk factors that could send the patients back to the hospital. The 3-year-old program has prevented at least five hospitalizations.
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