How Often Are Pharmacist Recommendations Followed by Emergency Physicians in Emergency Departments?

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01723462

Enrollment

301

Registered

2012-11-07

Start date

2008-08-31

Completion date

2009-03-31

Last updated

2012-11-08

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Conditions

Pharmacist Recommendations

Brief summary

Clinical pharmacy has played a role in Emergency Departments (ED). The presence of pharmacists have been shown to reduce medication errors and improve the medication history taken at admission. In Denmark a recent study revealed that clinical pharmacists identified medication problems in 25% of all admission to the ED, of which 47 % were considered to be serious. However, the pharmacist recommendations are of little value if they are not acknowledged or followed by the physicians. The aim of the present study was to analyze how often and under which circumstances the physicians made use of pharmaceutical recommendations in an ED with a mixed patient population with special attention to those recommendations, which were of significant or disastrous importance.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

15 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

\- all acute admissions to emergency department who were treated with one or more drugs

Exclusion criteria

\- children less than 15 years.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
number of pharmacist recommendations	up to 48 hours after admission

Countries

Denmark

Outcome results