Clinical pharmacy on-call program in the emergency department.
This is a descriptive and evaluative report regarding a clinical pharmacy residency in-house on-call program that facilitates the provision of 24-hour clinical pharmacy consultative services within the emergency department. During the two-year evaluation period, clinical pharmacy residents completed 3.1 consultations per 14-hour call period. Additionally, greater than 90% of the clinical pharmacy recommendations were accepted and completely followed by physician cohorts. These consultations were usually solicited by internal medicine physicians within the emergency department, involved patient-specific drug therapy recommendations, and required about 100 minutes (mean per consultation) of the clinical pharmacist's time. Thus, clinical pharmacy consultative services can be a useful addition to health care within the emergency department in teaching hospitals.
D002641:Chicago; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005178:Faculty; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006801:Humans; D007397:Internship, Nonmedical; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013995:Time