Pharmacists play an important role in managing medication-based therapies for older community-dwelling patients, according to a study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

In the study of patients aged 65 years and older who came to a pharmacist-led outpatient clinic at a general hospital in Beijing, China between 2016 and 2018, pharmacists were helpful not only for identifying and solving drug-related problems, but also for improving measures such as blood pressure and cholesterol, and for reducing the cost of medications for patients.

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