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The clinical impact of pharmacist services on mental health collaborative teams: A systematic review.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Evaluating the impact of pharmacists in outpatient mental health settings: a systematic review.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2026Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Community Pharmacy-Led Depression Services: Service Components, Outcomes, and Implementation Barriers and Facilitators.Depression and anxiety · 2026Pooled it
- Clinical pharmacist-led interventions and their impact on outcomes in patients with bipolar I disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The role of board-certified psychiatric pharmacists in United States foster care: Opportunities to optimize psychotropic medication use.The mental health clinician · 2026Article
- Acceptability of shared medication coordination in social psychiatric residence consultations: a qualitative interview study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Pharmacist administration of long-acting injectable medications for substance use disorders: A scoping review.The mental health clinician · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of a pharmacist-led tele-psychiatric clinic in managing drug-related problems.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2025Article
- Impact of Clinical Pharmacists on Interdisciplinary Mental Health Teams in a Community Setting: A Retrospective Chart Review.The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy · 2025Article
- Community Pharmacists' Role in Reducing the Incidence of Cardiometabolic Adverse Drug Events in Schizophrenia: Insights from Mental Health Professionals.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Evaluation of pharmaceutical care services in the Middle East Countries: a review of studies of 2013-2020.BMC public health · 2023Review
- Infant factors that impact the ecology of human milk secretion and composition-a report from "Breastmilk Ecology: Genesis of Infant Nutrition (BEGIN)" Working Group 3.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Review
- Best practice model for outpatient psychiatric pharmacy practice, part 2: Confirmation of the attribute statements.The mental health clinician · 2022Article
- A cross-sectional look at rural pharmacists' perceptions on implementing a depression screening service in their pharmacies: A brief report.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
- How is mental health care provided through community pharmacies? A quest for improvement.Pharmacy practiceArticle
- Pharmacy professionals' preparedness to use Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) behaviors.Pharmacy practiceArticle
- Filling a global gap in access to critical mental health services: Engaging pharmacists to enhance the care of individuals with mental health needs and illnesses.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the clinical impact of mental health collaborative teams that include pharmacists. DATA SOURCES: PubMed, PsychInfo, Clinialtrials.gov, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts. STUDY SELECTIONS: Studies in which pharmacists were part of a mental health collaborative team (defined as 2 or more health care providers working together to provide enhanced mental health care services to patients), mental health clinical outcomes were measured with a validated tool, and the articles were written in English were included. Articles were searched from database inception to July 2019 and were excluded if a quantifiable comparison of mental health clinical outcomes was not included or collaboration was not described. DATA EXTRACTION: Two authors independently screened titles and abstracts for relevance. Full-text articles that potentially met inclusion criteria were retrieved, read, and evaluated for inclusion using the eligibility criteria.
resultsAll 9 included studies reported improvements in mental health clinical outcomes when using collaborative teams that included pharmacists. Depression (n = 8) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (n = 1) were the mental health conditions included in the studies. Overall, 5 of 7 of the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) had statistically significant improvement in mental health clinical outcomes between the intervention groups, which included the collaborative teams and a "usual care" groups, which did not. Four of the 5 studies were set in Veterans Affairs (VA) clinics. The 2 non-RCT pre-post studies showed improvements in clinical outcomes but did not achieve statistical significance.
conclusionEvidence shows that collaborative teams that include pharmacists are effective at improving mental health outcomes in patients with depression and PTSD. Future studies should include non-VA settings and other mental health conditions to understand pharmacists' impact more broadly in mental health collaborative teams. Clarifying and understanding the overlapping roles and responsibilities of members of the team may be the next step to continue improving mental health clinical outcomes.
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