ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: COGNITIVE MEMORY SCREENING AND REFERRAL PROGRAM
The Results
The Results
Screening Outcomes
Evaluation
Screenings were evaluated by:
- Identifying how many patients pharmacists appropriately referred and did not refer to their physicians for further evaluation
- How many patients referred planned to go to their physicians for follow-up
- How many of those referred patients actually followed up with their physicians.
Patient satisfaction with services was evaluated through two mechanisms:
- The completion of a voluntary participant satisfaction survey provided to patients at the time they received their screening assessment.
- Follow-up phone calls from the pharmacist to participating patients 45 to 90 days after the initial pharmacy-based screening.
Results
Results were published in December 2013 in the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. Read them here.