Using an Advanced Practice Pharmacist in a Team-Based Care Model to Decrease Time to Hemoglobin A1c Goal Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, Florida, 2017–2019
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://.doi.org/10.5888/pcd17.190377
Abstract
Collaborative practice models that use an advanced practice pharmacist (APP) have been shown to improve outcomes for patients with chronic diseases. Few studies have evaluated the effects of team-based practice models involving an APP for time needed to attain glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) goals in patients with diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes). Ours is a retrospective cohort study, involving patients with type 2 diabetes who worked with a pharmacist in an academic family medicine clinic. These patients experienced a shorter time to achieve an HbA1c of less than 7%, as compared with patients who did not work with a pharmacist. Future studies should evaluate the length of time patients can sustain an HbA1c of less than 7% with team-based care involving an APP and the influence of such care on diabetes-related complications.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Preventing Chronic Disease, v. 17, art. 190377
Scholar Commons Citation
Cowart, Kevin; Updike, Wendy; Emechebe, Nnadozie; and Zgibor, Janice, "Using an Advanced Practice Pharmacist in a Team-Based Care Model to Decrease Time to Hemoglobin A1c Goal Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, Florida, 2017–2019" (2020). Internal Medicine Faculty Publications. 167.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/intmed_facpub/167
