Do interdisciplinary teams improve the optimization of guideline-directed medical therapy in clinical practice?
Interdisciplinary teams involving nurses and pharmacists are consistently effective at optimizing guideline-directed medical therapy in clinical practice.
This review summarizes interventions aimed at optimization of GDMT in clinical practice. Initiatives that used interdisciplinary teams, largely comprised of nurses and pharmacists, most consistently led to improvements in GDMT. Additional large, randomized studies are necessary to better understand other types of interventions, as well as their long-term efficacy and sustainability.
Tang et al. (Wed,) studied this question.