Pharmacist intervention helps improve outcomes in stroke patients
24 Oct 2019
byStephen Padilla
Admitted patients with a cerebrovascular accident (stroke) or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) who received pharmacist intervention in the stroke prevention clinic (SPC) are less likely to be readmitted and more likely to show improvement in surrogate markers, such as blood pressure (BP) and haemoglobin (Hb)A1c, a study has shown.