Implementing Evidence-Based Guidelines: The Role of Ambulatory Care Pharmacists.
Pharmacists strive to align patients' medication regimens with evidence-based guidelines through medication therapy management and through the utilization of protocols based on best practices for chronic disease management. Ambulatory care pharmacists also assist in implementing guidelines through developing evidence-based algorithms and processes, educating providers and staff, and participating in population management.
clinical assistant professor, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; clinical pharmacist practitioner, Department of Pharmacy, UNC Medical Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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clinical instructor, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; clinical pharmacist practitioner, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; clinical pharmacist, AccessCare, Chapel Hill, North Carolina gretchen_tong@med.unc.edu.
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