A Veterans Affairs' perspective in response to Best Practice Model Subcommittee attribute statements for outpatient psychiatric pharmacists.

Abstract

Dear Editor: We applaud the work published by Lee et al and the best practice model subcommittee in their attribute statements for defining the optimal recommendations for outpatient psychiatric pharmacy practice. This serves as an excellent foundation in standardizing the expectations for clinical pharmacist practitioners (CPP) within outpatient mental health (MH) settings and our group believes these defined statements are being applied at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Measurement-based care, suicide assessment, and comprehensive medication management (CMM) are all standards of care for VA outpatient MH CPP. The goal of our letter is to highlight the VA MH CPP model and the advancements in access, quality impact, and standardization.