Optimization of Pharmacist Resources at a Community Internal Medicine Teaching Hospital: Development of a Tool Through Pharmacist and Physician Expert Panels.

ABSTRACT: Purpose: Expansion of acute care clinical pharmacist roles requires pharmacy departments to optimize allocation of pharmacist resources. This study aimed to develop an objective resource optimization tool to rank clinical service needs to assign internal medicine pharmacist resources at a community hospital within an academic medical center health system. Additionally, this study aimed to collect and analyze physician expert opinion to supplement the pharmacist-developed tool. Method: A pharmacist expert panel was convened to determine patient characteristics necessitating additional pharmacist services. Retrospective electronic health record data were aggregated by patient characteristic categories and ranked by clinical services. Separately, a survey of attending physicians

SUBMITTER: Russ RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12043605 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature