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Study: Pharmacists can help reduce hospital readmissions

Study: Pharmacists can help reduce hospital readmissions

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By HME News Staff

Updated Wed June 25, 2014

YARMOUTH, Maine - Hospital readmissions could be reduced by 20% if high-risk patients received counseling and medication management from a community pharmacist, according to a new study from the University of Cincinnati's James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy. The ongoing study seeks to pair 1,000 high-risk patients with community pharmacists. Researchers will focus on patients with heart failure, COPD, pneumonia, myocardial infarction or diabetes.

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