Bottom Line
Because psychiatric outpatients present with challenging medical comorbidities and increasingly complex medication regimens, specialized clinical pharmacists can enrich the management team by offering essential monitoring and polypharmacy services, patient education and counseling, and cross-discipline training. At one academic treatment center, psychiatric and non-psychiatric practitioners are gradually buying in to these promising collaborative efforts.
Related Resources
• Board of Pharmacy Specialties. www.bpsweb.org/specialties/psychiatric.cfm.
• Abramowitz P. Ambulatory care pharmacy practice: The future is now. www.connect.ashp.org/blogs/paul-abramowitz/2014/05/14/ambulatory-care-pharmacy-practice-the-future-is-now.
Drug Brand Name
Citalopram • Celexa
Disclosures
The authors report no financial relationship with any company whose products are mentioned in this article or with manufacturers of competing products.