Appropriate Statin Prescriptions Increase Sixfold With Automated Referrals
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaThe odds of prescribing the appropriate dose of statins—a medicine used to lower “bad” cholesterol levels—increased sixfold when automated referrals were made to pharmacy services, instead of relying on traditional prescribing methods, according to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.