Key result
Clinical pharmacists provide key multidisciplinary value in managing patients with heart failure.
Why the study?
Effective heart failure management requires a multidisciplinary approach including clinical pharmacy, but the role and value of pharmacists need to be highlighted and supported.
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Effectively managing heart failure requires a multidisciplinary, holistic approach attuned to many factors: diagnosis of structural and functional cardiac abnormalities; medication, device, or surgical management; concomitant treatment of comorbidities; physical rehabilitation; dietary considerations; and social factors. This practice paper highlights the pharmacist's role in the management of patients with heart failure, the evidence supporting their functions, and steps to ensure the pharmacist resource is available to the broad population of patients with heart failure.
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Stough et al. (2017) conducted a review in Heart failure. Clinical pharmacy was evaluated. Clinical pharmacists play a valuable role in the multidisciplinary management of patients with heart failure.
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