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Record W4412957081 · doi:10.4212/cjhp.3737

Impact of Clinical Pharmacists on Interdisciplinary Mental Health Teams in a Community Setting: A Retrospective Chart Review

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Sukhpreet Poonia, Mimi Nguyen, Anna Yee, Robin Cho

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaFraser Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolypharmacyMedicineClinical pharmacyPsychological interventionPharmacistMental healthPharmacyMultidisciplinary approachFamily medicineMedication therapy managementHealth careNursingPsychiatryIntensive care medicine

Abstract

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Background: Clinical pharmacists play a pivotal role within collaborative care environments, with well-documented contributions on multidisciplinary teams in these settings. Their specific impacts on community mental health and substance use (MHSU) teams remains to be characterized in a publicly funded regional program within Fraser Health. Objectives: To describe the impact of medication reviews performed by clinical pharmacists and the uptake by prescribers of pharmaceutical interventions recommended by the clinical pharmacists in an ambulatory MHSU setting. Methods: This study involved a retrospective chart review of 100 patients referred to Fraser Health Community MHSU Pharmacy Services across 20 communities within the Fraser Health Authority in British Columbia. Results: Clinical pharmacists identified a total of 310 drug therapy problems (DTPs) among the 100 patients. The most common DTPs identified were adverse drug reactions (n = 97, 31%), ineffective drug therapy (n = 68, 22%), unnecessary medications (n = 46, 15%), and the need for additional drug therapy (n = 35, 11%). Prescribers accepted 1 or more of the recommendations made by the clinical pharmacist in 88% (81/92) of the cases with follow-up. More than half (55%, 171/310) of the identified DTPs were resolved within 6 months of the initial pharmacist assessment. Conclusions: In this study, embedding clinical pharmacists within community MHSU care teams enhanced medication safety and therapeutic optimization, while reducing polypharmacy. Future investigation into the benefits for long-term clinical outcomes is warranted. Keywords: mental health, clinical pharmacist, retrospective chart review, multidisciplinary RÉSUMÉ Contexte : Les pharmaciens cliniciens jouent un rôle essentiel dans les environnements de soins collaboratifs, où leurs contributions au sein des équipes multidisciplinaires sont bien documentées. Leur impact précis sur les équipes en santé mentale communautaire et en toxicomanie (SMCT) doit encore être précisé dans un programme régional financé par des fonds publics au sein de l’Autorité sanitaire Fraser. Objectifs : Décrire les conséquences des examens des médicaments menés par les pharmaciens cliniciens et l’adoption par les prescripteurs des interventions pharmaceutiques recommandées par les pharmaciens cliniciens dans un environnement ambulatoire en SMCT. Méthodologie : Cette étude impliquait un examen rétrospectif des dossiers de 100 patients orientés vers les services pharmaceutiques en SMCT dans 20 communautés au sein de l’Autorité sanitaire Fraser, en Colombie-Britannique. Résultats : Parmi les 100 patients, les pharmaciens cliniciens ont recensé 310 problèmes de traitement médicamenteux au total. Les plus courants étaient les réactions indésirables aux médicaments (n = 97, 31 %), l’inefficacité de la thérapie médicamenteuse (n = 68, 22 %), les médicaments inutiles (n = 46, 15 %) et le besoin d’une thérapie médicamenteuse supplémentaire (n = 35, 11 %). Les prescripteurs ont accepté une ou plusieurs des recommandations formulées par le pharmacien clinicien dans 88 % (81/92) des cas faisant l’objet d’un suivi. Plus de la moitié des problèmes de traitement médicamenteux recensés (55 %, 171/310) ont été résolus dans les 6 mois suivant l’évaluation initiale par le pharmacien. Conclusions : Les résultats de cette étude ont montré que l’intégration des pharmaciens cliniciens au sein des équipes de soins en SMCT renforce la sécurité des médicaments et l’optimisation thérapeutique, tout en réduisant la polypharmacie. Des recherches futures sur les bénéfices pour les résultats cliniques à long terme sont nécessaires. Mots-clés : santé mentale, pharmacien clinicien, revue rétrospective des dossiers, multidisciplinaire

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.034
Threshold uncertainty score0.067

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.123
GPT teacher head0.541
Teacher spread0.418 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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