How Often Are Pharmacist Recommendations Followed by Emergency Physicians in Emergency Departments?

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

301 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-08-31

Study Completion Date

2009-03-31

Brief Summary

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Clinical pharmacy has played a role in Emergency Departments (ED). The presence of pharmacists have been shown to reduce medication errors and improve the medication history taken at admission. In Denmark a recent study revealed that clinical pharmacists identified medication problems in 25% of all admission to the ED, of which 47 % were considered to be serious.

However, the pharmacist recommendations are of little value if they are not acknowledged or followed by the physicians.

The aim of the present study was to analyze how often and under which circumstances the physicians made use of pharmaceutical recommendations in an ED with a mixed patient population with special attention to those recommendations, which were of significant or disastrous importance.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Pharmacist Recommendations

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

\- all acute admissions to emergency department who were treated with one or more drugs

Exclusion Criteria

\- children less than 15 years.

Minimum Eligible Age

15 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Responsible Party

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Christian Backer Mogensen

assistant professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Kolding Sygehus

Kolding, , Denmark

Site Status

Countries

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Denmark

References

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Mogensen CB, Olsen I, Thisted AR. Pharmacist advice is accepted more for medical than for surgical patients in an emergency department. Dan Med J. 2013 Aug;60(8):A4682.

Reference Type DERIVED

PMID: 23905567 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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SLB-ED-02-2012

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id