By Karen Blum
Integrated specialty pharmacies working in health-system clinics can help speed the time it takes for patients to gain access to needed medications, pharmacists with Mass General Brigham, in Boston, have shown.
In a retrospective chart review of 121 patients being prescribed specialty medications from an ambulatory autoimmune/allergy practice, the median time to dispense from prescription receipt was four days for the health-system specialty pharmacy and 13 days (P<0.001) for an