Winter 2016
Power to the patient
The health care system has long been focused on finding ways to improve patient care.
But to pharmacist Josh Neumiller and other members of an interdisciplinary research team at Washington State University Spokane, too often something was missing.
Patient perspectives.
“We flipped that around,” explains Neumiller, an associate professor at WSU’s College of Pharmacy who studies medication lapses and other adverse conditions among those who take multiple prescription drugs. “There’s been this realization…that the people these improvements were supposed to be for weren’t being included in the decision-making process.”
Neumiller, along with researchers from the WSU College of Nursing and Providence Health … » More …