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Right Care Initiative Promising Best Practices

The following links explain and support standout strategies shared with the Right Care Initiative.

• Clinical Pharmacist on Care Team Interventions
• Clinical Pharmacist on Care Team – Promising Intervention Brief
• The Value of Pharmacy Services—Powerpoint by Jan Hirsch, Ph.D.
• Economic Effect of Pharmacists on Health Outcomes
• US Pharmacists’ Effect as Team Members on Patient Care
• Economic Evaluations of Clinical Pharmacy Services: 2001-2005
• How to Care for 30 Million More Patients: Pharmacists can help fill the gap (WSJ.com)
• Effects of a Pharmacist on Adverse Drug Events and Medication Errors
• Effects of Care Coordination
• Ashville Studies
• Evidence of the Economic Benefit of Clinical Pharmacy Services: 1996–2000
• Clinical Pharmacists and Inpatient Medical Care
• HRSA.gov-Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative
• Medical Group Endorsement
• Home Blood Pressure Monitoring--Promising Intervention Brief,m
• Medication Protocol for Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention
  
ALL/PHASE (Kaiser generics protocol: Aspirin, Lisopril and Lipid Lowering Medications/Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes Everyday)
• Preventing Myocardial Infarction and Stroke With a Simplified Bundle of Cardioprotective Medications
European Union Guidelines

• 2009 Updated EU Guidelines
• European Strategies for Blood Pressure Control—Right Care Presentation by Helen Halpin, PhD (Powerpoint)
• Patient Activation/Patient Self Management Education

Dietary Guidelines for Amerians

The DASH Eating Plan

• Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with DASH
• Non-pharmacological aspects of blood pressure management: what are the data?
• The effect of dietary patterns on estimated coronary heart disease risk: results from the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) trial.
• The DASH diet and insulin sensitivity
• Effects of the DASH diet alone and in combination with exercise and weight loss on blood pressure and cardiovascular biomarkers in men and women with high blood pressure: the ENCORE study.

NCOA Literature Review

Treating High Cholesterol: Advice Column from Dr. Carolyn Clancy (AHRQ)

• Additional Interventions
• Practice Redesign (Medical Home, Team Based, Web Supported, Hi-tech, Continuous Care):
• Patient Centered Medical Home Demonstration - American Journal of Managed Care, 2009
• The Group Health Medical Home at Year Two - Health Affairs, 2010
• The Patient Centered Medical Home Movement - JAMA 2010
• Proactive Outreach and Coaching
• Motivational Media Messaging/ Public Airwaves & Celebrity Messaging
• Intensive Ambulatory Care
• Provider – Patient Communication
• Refining and Improving Payments and Incentives

The views expressed in the documents by the presenters to the Department of Managed Health Care should not be interpreted as an endorsement by the Department.

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