Pharmacy run clinic

[Pharmacy Kid]

Pharmacy run clinic managed 70 pts with dm over past year. Thirteen pts achieved their a1c goals. The average a1c lowering of all pts was 1.6. How significant are these numbers?

 

[deleted205891]

Hard to say without a comparator. If you can find the percent reduction that physician clinics lower, and the pharmacist-run clinic a1c lowering or goal achievement is similar, you could argue that pharmacists can do it as well as physicians but at a lower cost.

 

[RxPreceptor]

Let's not forget factoring in Baseline HbA1c since higher baseline values most always translate to larger HbA1c % reductions

 

[confettiflyer]

Even better find the average a1c reduction with an NP run clinic.

Even betterererer....track rate of hospitalization vs. not on service. ACO win!


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[beautifulrobot]

You may want to highlight if the clinic has achieved some of the Healthy People 2020 goals for diabetes, as well as compare measures in the local clinic with national measures in order to put impact in context.

Search the Data | Healthy People 2020

 

[Sparda29]

Hard to say without a comparator. If you can find the percent reduction that physician clinics lower, and the pharmacist-run clinic a1c lowering or goal achievement is similar, you could argue that pharmacists can do it as well as physicians but at a lower cost.

This was my capstone project. The study wasn't actually done, the project was just to plan out a study.