Pharmacist clinical intervention program.
Our efforts have helped us demonstrate the positive impact of pharmaceutical care for patients. Our experience with the Clinical Notes section of our computer system leads us to recommend that such capabilities be sought in all pharmacy computer systems. A significant advantage to avoiding paper-based systems for documenting and collecting information relevant to clinical interventions, ADRs, DUE data, and patient outcomes has been proven in our institution. Various ways to categorize intervention data have been reported in the literature. We recommend clinical intervention categories be based on the eight categories of drug misadventuring so that data from different hospitals can be tabulated or compared. The success of our system is that it is one system rather than many systems. The importance of pharmacist documentation demands that it be simple, efficient, and painless, or it will be nonexistent.
Smith
S R
SR
Flower Hospital, Sylvania, OH.
Utterback
C M
CM
Parr
D D
DD
Waller
D J
DJ
D016907:Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems; D016303:Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000592:standards*; D004363:Drug Utilization / Q000592:standards; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors; D009820:Ohio; D010595:Pharmacists; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010606:Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee; D011340:Problem Solving; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis