Pharmacists Improving Patient Outcomes in the Perioperative Service Project: The effect of pharmacist prescribing and history taking on missed medications postoperatively

Perioperative Pharmacist Prescribing and History Taking and its affect on missed medications post-operatively in adults

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12609000868280

Acronym

PIPOPS

Enrollment

360

Registered

2009-10-06

Start date

2008-11-24

Completion date

2009-03-01

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if having a pharmacist take a medication history and/or prescribe patients regular medications on admission to hospital for surgery reduces the number of medication omissions.

Interventions

Pharmacist Prescribing and/or Pharmacist Medication History Taking immediately preoperatively and either prescribing of regular medications and/or documentation of the medication history in the patients medical record once only on admission. Orders are valid for a seven day period.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adult, all surgical candidates (except where otherwise excluded), Take regular medication,

Exclusion criteria

Orthopaedic surgical candidate

Outcome results