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

Sponsor
University of Southern Denmark (Other)
Overall Status
Completed
CT.gov ID
NCT01723462
Collaborator
(none)
301
Enrollment
1
Location
7
Duration (Months)
43.2
Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief 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.

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase

    Study Design

    Study Type:
    Observational
    Actual Enrollment :
    301 participants
    Observational Model:
    Cohort
    Time Perspective:
    Prospective
    Study Start Date :
    Aug 1, 2008
    Actual Primary Completion Date :
    Mar 1, 2009
    Actual Study Completion Date :
    Mar 1, 2009

    Outcome Measures

    Primary Outcome Measures

    1. number of pharmacist recommendations [up to 48 hours after admission]

    Eligibility Criteria

    Criteria

    Ages Eligible for Study:
    15 Years and Older
    Sexes Eligible for Study:
    All
    Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
    No
    Inclusion Criteria:
    • all acute admissions to emergency department who were treated with one or more drugs
    Exclusion Criteria:
    • children less than 15 years.

    Contacts and Locations

    Locations

    Site City State Country Postal Code
    1 Kolding Sygehus Kolding Denmark 6000

    Sponsors and Collaborators

    • University of Southern Denmark

    Investigators

    None specified.

    Study Documents (Full-Text)

    None provided.

    More Information

    Publications

    None provided.
    Responsible Party:
    Christian Backer Mogensen, assistant professor, University of Southern Denmark
    ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
    NCT01723462
    Other Study ID Numbers:
    • SLB-ED-02-2012
    First Posted:
    Nov 7, 2012
    Last Update Posted:
    Nov 8, 2012
    Last Verified:
    Nov 1, 2012

    Study Results

    No Results Posted as of Nov 8, 2012