Pharmacist Metrics in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: an Exploration of the Medication Regimen Complexity-Intensive Care Unit (MRC-ICU) Score.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The medication regimen complexity-intensive care unit (MRC-ICU) score has been developed and validated as an objective predictive metric for patient outcomes and pharmacist workload in the adult critically ill population. The purpose of this study was to explore the MRC-ICU and other workload metrics in the pediatric ICU (PICU).

Methods

This study was a retrospective cohort of pediatric ICU patients admitted to a single institution -between February 2, 2022 - August 2, 2022. Two scores were calculated, including the MRC-ICU and the pediatric Daily Monitoring System (pDMS). Data were extracted from the electronic health record. The primary outcome was the correlation of the MRC-ICU to mortality, as measured by Pearson -correlation -coefficient. Additionally, the

SUBMITTER: Kandaswamy S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10715388 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature