The Effectiveness of Clinical Pharmacist-Led Consultation in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases: A Prospective, Multicenter, Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious global health threat and leads to a huge challenge to infectious diseases (ID) treatment. To tackle AMR, regional 'Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs' (ASP) have been implemented in many countries. Due to insufficient clinical pharmacy resources, a major intervention mode of ASP in China is through clinical pharmacist-led consultation (CPC). The current study aims to prospectively evaluate this intervention and compare the effectiveness of CPC served by ID and non-ID clinical pharmacists.

Methods

We conducted a prospective and multicenter cohort study based on a regional registry database in 17 hospitals in Western China, including consecutive patients with ID between April 2017 and December 2019. Baseline characteristic

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7506045 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature