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

NCT01723462 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 301

Last updated 2012-11-08

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Pharmacist Recommendations

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Southern Denmark

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-08-31
Primary Completion
2009-03-31
Completion
2009-03-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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