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Effect of a Pharmacist Intervention

Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc; Jeffrey L. Schnipper, MD, MPH

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We agree with Ms. Criddle that it is important to consider context when interpreting the results of the PILL-CVD (Pharmacist Intervention for Low Literacy in Cardiovascular Disease) study. Patients may indeed have difficulty retaining information provided before discharge. This should not lead us to abandon education but rather to provide it longitudinally and in collaboration with primary care. We also agree that these types of interventions should focus on patients most likely to benefit and be matched to the patients' needs (for example, where the barrier to safe medication use is a knowledge deficit, an educational intervention is appropriate). To this extent, the effect of our intervention was influenced by the high health literacy rates of our study population.
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Kripalani S, Schnipper JL. Effect of a Pharmacist Intervention. Ann Intern Med. ;158:137–138. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-2-201301150-00015

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(2):137-138.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-2-201301150-00015

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