PHarmacist Avoidance or Reductions in Medical Costs in Patients Presenting the EMergency Department: PHARM-EM Study.

ABSTRACT: To comprehensively classify interventions performed by emergency medicine clinical pharmacists and quantify cost avoidance generated through their accepted interventions.

Design

A multicenter, prospective, observational study was performed between August 2018 and January 2019.

Setting

Community and academic hospitals in the United States.

Participants

Emergency medicine clinical pharmacists.

Interventions

Recommendations classified into one of 38 intervention categories associated with cost avoidance.

Measurements and main results

Eighty-eight emergency medicine pharmacists at 49 centers performed 13,984 interventions during 917 shifts that were accepted on 8,602 patients and generated $7,531,862 of cost avoidance. The quantity of accepted interventions a

SUBMITTER: Rech MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8078282 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature