Defining an intervention and ensuring consistency in delivery is necessary to establish a common understanding and set of expectations across key stakeholder groups including patients, pharmacists, physicians, other health care providers, and payers. This also allows the service to be recognized as distinct, yet complementary to care provided by the primary or specialty care provider. An intervention, such as comprehensive medication management (CMM), focused on optimizing medication use must be defined with a degree of specificity that allows consistent training of clinical pharmacists and other health care providers, replication of the service, and observable fidelity of the service across practitioners.
This white paper provides a framework and common language for understanding CMM and delivering it through a detailed patient care process. It was funded by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Research Institute and the UNC Eshelman Institute for Innovation. Content was developed by researchers at the UNC Eschelman School of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy and the University of Colorado.
