Summary
This research focused on the Clinical pharmacist (CP) interventions from the PROTECTED-UK cohort. Data was collected from 21 adult critical care units over 14 days and interventions were catergorised as an error, optimisation or consults, with pharmacy service demographics also being collected by investigator survey.
Content
Results found that of the 20, 758 prescriptions reviewed, 3375 interventions were made, CPs spent 3.5 h per day on direct patient care, reviewed 10.3 patients per day and required 22.5 min per review. In addition, there was no correlation found between the presence of electronic prescribing in critical care and any intervention rate, concluding that a CP is essential for safe and optimised patient medication therapy and that services should be appropriately staffed to ensure sufficient time for prescription review and maximal therapy optimisation.
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