Clinical pharmacy in an emergency medicine setting.
A decentralized emergency medicine clinical pharmacy program was initiated and has operated now for over 1 year. The program attempted to answer two questions: is there a viable clinical pharmacy role in emergency medicine, and could staff pharmacists successfully function in such a role without formal clinical training and experience? Initial primary objectives were to provide an on-the-spot pharmaceutical consultation service and to initiate new or expanded traditional pharmacy support to staff and patients. A secondary objective was to provide expanded outpatient prescription service to emergency room patients.
D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014861:Washington