Electronic pharmaceutical record for best possible medication history at preoperative evaluation to prevent postoperative adverse events: a quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Access to reliable data about patient's medications before surgery represents a challenge for reducing the risk of postoperative adverse events (AE) potentially related to preoperative treatment.

Objective

To evaluate the impact on AE of a nationwide ambulatory electronic pharmaceutical record (EPR) used by a pharmacist for best possible medication history (BPMH), associated with the preoperative evaluation.

Methods

This quasi-experimental comparative interventional study included 750 adult patients with an available EPR, admitted to the preoperative clinic for elective orthopaedic surgery, between April 2014 and April 2017. Data analysis was completed in September 2022. In the intervention group, a pharmacist performed the BPMH using the EPR, before the pa

SUBMITTER: Chapuis C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11877192 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature