A new approach on assessing clinical pharmacists' impact on prescribing errors in a surgical intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT: Background With a clinical pharmacists' participation in an intensive care unit (ICU) previous international studies have shown a reduction of medication errors, drug costs and improvements of clinical outcomes. Still there is a lack of qualitative data on clinical pharmacists' impact on prescribing error rates in the ICU. Therefore, a new approach was developed relating prescribing errors to the number of monitored medications including physicians' approval on all prescribing errors. Objective This study investigates the influence of clinical pharmacists' medication review on the prescribing error rate in an ICU. Setting A controlled interventional study was conducted in a surgical ICU with one control phase (P0) and two intervention phases (P1 and P2). Method The investigation aimed to d

SUBMITTER: Kessemeier N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6800837 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature