Using clinical intervention documentation.
The clinical intervention reporting system that we are using at our facility provides pharmacy management, hospital management, and the quality improvement committee with valuable information. Pharmacy management can use the interventions to motivate, train, and evaluate pharmacists, as well as justify full-time equivalent employees. Hospital management can use the data in the budgeting process, in physician credentialing, and as a part of the medical center's cost containment efforts. The quality improvement committee can use the data in drug selection for DUEs, as well as for information in clinical privileging. Now pharmacy can say with confidence, "We are documenting it; we are doing it."
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St. Louis Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, MO.
D016303:Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems; D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards*; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000592:standards; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans / Q000458:organization & administration; D008923:Missouri; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010595:Pharmacists; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*