Bedside check of medication appropriateness (BED-CMA) as a risk-based tool for bedside clinical pharmacy services: A proof-of-concept study at the trauma surgery ward.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bedside clinical pharmacy prevents drug-related problems, but is not feasible in many countries due to limited resources. Hence, clinical rules using structural information in the electronic health record can help identifying potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs). We aimed to develop and implement a risk-based clinical pharmacy service and evaluate its impact on prescribing at the trauma surgery ward.

Methods

The proportion of residual PIPs per day, i.e. the number of PIPs that persisted up to 24 h after pharmacist intervention divided by the number of PIPs at T0, was evaluated before and after implementation of the intervention in an interrupted time series analysis. The pre-intervention cohort received usual pharmacy services, i.e. a 0.3 FTE clinical ph

SUBMITTER: Van De Sijpe G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10656193 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature