AzPA Pharmacy Flash

• Integrating pharmacists into general practices reduces hospital readmissions and presentations
  Integrating pharmacists into general practice teams to review medication management lowered the number of emergency department presentations and resulted in potentially significant cost savings to the health system, according to research published recently in the Medical Journal of Australia.
• Consumers' growing comfort with retail health could prove critical to vaccine effort: J.D. Power
  A growing number of Americans are turning to retail pharmacies for health and wellness services, which could make their role in the COVID-19 vaccine distribution even more crucial, according to a new study.
• More intensive blood pressure management may benefit patients with chronic kidney disease
  New, more intensive blood pressure lowering recommendations could benefit nearly 25 million Americans with chronic kidney disease (CKD) if followed, according to the results of a study published in Kidney International.