Patients in a pre-operative setting: drug-related problems, associated pharmaceutical interventions, risk factors and development of a risk prediction tool. A retrospective case control study at the University Hospital Salzburg.

Patients in a pre-operative setting: drug-related problems, associated pharmaceutical interventions, risk factors and development of a risk prediction tool. A retrospective case control study at the University Hospital Salzburg. - mediPORT (Development of a Pre-Operative Risk-prediction Tool for drug-related problems)

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00028763

Enrollment

1500

Registered

2022-06-01

Start date

2022-02-14

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

Z71

Interventions

Group 1: Retrospectively from the hospital information system: patients with a drug-related problem documented by pharmacists (case group). Group 2: Retrospectively from the hospital information syste

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients - who were undergoing elective surgery in the year 2021. - who participated in the pharmaceutical medication review at the pre-anaesthesia outpatient clinic in time of hospital admission. - are = 18 years old. Case-group: - all patients with documented drug-related problem(s) Control-group: - patients without drug-related problem(s) (randomly selection)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Patients not complying with the inclusion criteria.

Design outcomes

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Impact of the clinical-pharmaceutical service on patient safety. The drug-related problems are characterised according to the PCNE classification and statistically evaluated.	—

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Identification and subsequent validation of risk factors for potential and manifest drug-related problems of patients undergoing elective surgery at the time of hospital admission. Retrospective data collection (primary data) via the hospital information system.	—

Countries

Austria

Contacts

Public ContactStephanie Buchegger

Institut für Pharmazie der Paracelsus Medizinischen Privatuniversität (PMU) Salzburg

stephanie.buchegger@pmu.ac.at+43 662 2420-80606

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026