Evaluation of Clinical Pharmacists' Interventions in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62157124:16370/16:43874455

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27270831" target="_blank" >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27270831</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/phar.1777" target="_blank" >10.1002/phar.1777</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evaluation of Clinical Pharmacists' Interventions in the Czech Republic

Original language description

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of interventions, categorized by type of intervention and therapeutic class, made by a team of four clinical pharmacists over a 1-year period, and to assess the potential economic impact of these interventions. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Clinical pharmacists' interventions were categorized by therapeutic class and divided into eight types: introduction of a drug, discontinuation of a drug, dosage change, route of administration change, recommendation to continue therapy, recommendation to perform further evaluation (e. g., laboratory assessment), reintroduction of a missing medication, and therapeutic drug monitoring (request to measure a drug concentration and provide its interpretation). All interventions accepted by the attending physicians were recorded by using a software application. For the evaluation of the economic impact of the interventions, published statistical data were used from the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic. During the 1year period, the clinical pharmacists performed 1916 interventions. The most frequent intervention was drug discontinuation (27.9% of all interventions), and the drug category with the highest frequency of interventions was central nervous system drugs (25.1%). All interventions were accepted by the physicians. For the evaluation of potential economic impact, a select group of drugs was used, representing 14.4% of the interventions. The benefit: cost ratio was 3: 1.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FR - Pharmacology and apothecary chemistry

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PHARMACOTHERAPY

ISSN

0277-0008

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

766-773

UT code for WoS article

000383595600154

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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