Heart failure & cardiomyopathiesCohort study
Building Collaborative Heart Failure Care Through a Community Pharmacy Certificate Program and Community Pharmacist-Physician Network
- 1-year prospective cohort study
- pilot project
Authors' conclusion
The development and implementation of a HF community pharmacy certificate program prepared 3 community pharmacists to participate in collaborative HF care with cardiology providers. Certified pharmacists delivered comprehensive education to patients with HF and provided a wide range of clinical interventions supporting the potential role of community pharmacists in HF management.
Study context
- Population
- Adult patients with heart failure (HF) managed by community pharmacists educated through a certificate programpatients enrolled, 3 pharmacies as pilot sites
- Participants
- 34 patients
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Pharmacist certificate exam
All 3 pharmacists passed the exam on their first attempt
above 80%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Comprehensive education · initial follow-up encounter
- All patients received comprehensive education
Pharmacist interventions
- Interventions performed
- 80
- Interventions accepted
- 30 (37.5%)
- Vaccine (patient-accepted interventions)
- 13
- Accepted adherence-related interventions
- seven
- HF guideline-directed medical therapy interventions
- five
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug discontinuation interventions
- 3
- Cost-mitigation strategy interventions
- two
Original publication
Building Collaborative Heart Failure Care Through a Community Pharmacy Certificate Program and Community Pharmacist-Physician Network. JACC Adv. Published 23 July 2026. doi:10.1016/j.jacadv.2026.103054
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it