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Rob DiDomenico

Rob DiDomenico

Cardiovascular clinical pharmacist and Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy; host of the ACCP JOURNALS podcast and ACCP Board of Regents member.

Sep 14, 2026

11:06
And I'll let Rob talk a little bit more about those details.
11:09
Yeah.
11:09
So when you think about less than half of the patients that we identified had had their lipid panels done, and then among that cohort where we had follow-up lipids to look at, less than thirty percent is-- twenty-eight percent of them had any sort of lipid-lowering therapy intensification.
11:27
So these are the patients that are highest risk, and less than a third of them were getting their lipid-lowering therapy intensified.
11:34
Acknowledging that about a third of the patients that had follow-up lipids, their LDLs during follow-up were at goal.
11:41
When you factor that in, it still means that nearly forty percent of our, our patients that we had identified did not have lipid-lowering therapy intensification despite being candidates for that intensification.
11:53
And that's using the current guideline recommendations at the time.

8 MINS LATER

20:18
So even though the medications are no longer considered specialty medications, we still kind of keep it in-house as best as we can in order to identify some of these barriers.
19:12
Mm-hmm
19:13
... making sure they're on the right meds and getting them off the, perhaps the things that may not be benefiting them.
19:18
Um, so th-there, there are a couple different approaches generally speaking.
19:25
Um, we speak to the kind of the domain approach a little bit.
19:28
There's some, uh, several folks in the cardiovascular community have, have touched on this, particularly as it relates to geriatric care, um, looking at the domain approach.
19:37
And then there's been a couple of different frameworks that have been proposed, the four Ms, the five Ms, um, again, that are a little bit more focused towards geriatric care, but I think can be applied, uh, globally, um, to other adults as well as to, uh, children.
19:53
Um, you know, care coordination, having a structured approach is certainly, um, one of the biggest things.

6 MINS LATER

26:09
But if, if someone's inter-interested in, in doing this, what, what is their process for, for how to, to think about this?

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