|Videos|March 26, 2017

How Can Pharmacists Help Deal with Clinical Inertia?

Pharmacists play an important role in helping to deal with clinical inertia.

In this video, Dhiren Patel, PharmD, CDE, BC-ADM FCCP, who is a professor of pharmacy practice at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences School of Pharmacy, discusses with Pharmacy Times the important role pharmacists can play in combatting clinical inertia.

Dr. Patel discussed managing diabetes with insulin/GLP-1 receptor agonist combinations during a special session held in conjunction with APHA 2017.

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