Characterizing Critical Care Pharmacy Services Across the United States.

ABSTRACT: Involvement of clinical pharmacists in the ICU attenuates costs, avoids adverse drug events, and reduces morbidity and mortality. This survey assessed services and activities of ICU pharmacists.

Design

A 27-question, pretested survey.

Setting

1,220 U.S. institutions.

Subjects

Critical care pharmacists.

Interventions

Electronic questionnaire of pharmacy services and activities across clinical practice, education, scholarship, and administration.

Measurements and main results

A total of 401 (response rate of 35.4%) surveys representing 493 ICUs were completed. Median daily ICU census was 12 (interquartile range, 6-20) beds with 1 (interquartile range, 1-1.5) pharmacist full-time equivalent per ICU. Direct clinical ICU pharmacy services were available in 70.

SUBMITTER: MacLaren R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7803868 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature