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Rural Wyoming has some similar geographic and workforce constraints, although the jurisdictions differ in financing, regulation, and pharmacist scope. This systematic review and narrative synthesis examined evidence on coordinated community pharmacist\u2013family physician care in rural and suburban Alberta and considered, separately, the contextual relevance of the findings to rural Wyoming and comparable frontier settings. Methods: We searched PubMed\/MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library using controlled vocabulary and free-text terms to identify English-language peer-reviewed studies and practice-relevant evidence published from 1 January 2010 to 19 April 2026. Two authors screened titles\/abstracts and full texts and resolved decisions by consensus. Methodological appraisal used design-appropriate Critical Appraisal Skills Programme criteria, and outcome-level certainty was considered using GRADE domains. Results: Thirty-four eligible peer-reviewed or practice-evaluation records were included in the narrative synthesis, and seven official contextual or methodological sources supported jurisdictional interpretation. Evidence was strongest for hypertension, cardiovascular risk reduction, medication management, and chronic disease monitoring. No included study directly compared the same intervention in Alberta and Wyoming; evidence for emergency-department effects and equivalent effectiveness across settings was limited. Conclusions: Coordinated pharmacist\u2013family physician care may extend access to selected medication-related and chronic disease services when supported by documentation, referral, follow-up, and red-flag protocols. Application to Wyoming should be treated as a context-dependent proposition requiring local adaptation and prospective evaluation, not as demonstrated transferability or a substitute for physician-led longitudinal primary care.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/pharmacy14040098","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,2]],"date-time":"2026-07-02T15:52:24Z","timestamp":1783007544000},"page":"98","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Coordinated Primary-Care Access in Rural and Suburban Alberta, with a Contextual Comparison to Rural Wyoming: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Community Pharmacist\u2013Family Physician Care Models"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-1991-9184","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tomasz","family":"Karczewski","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Cranston Ridge Medical Clinic, Calgary, AB T3M 3A9, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6358-4619","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jennifer M. 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