The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is an approach to delivering comprehensive, continuous, coordinated care across all life stages and has been hypothesized to be one potential solution to the discrepancy between the high cost but low quality of health care in the US. Although a plethora of literature exists on how pharmacy interventions can improve the quality of patient care through medication therapy management programs, there is a paucity of data supporting pharmacists' involvement in PCMHs. Pharmacists are uniquely trained and positioned to make important contributions to PCMHs as medication care coordinators. The opportunity is now for pharmacists to establish their role within this medical setting.
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