Computerized documentation of clinical pharmacist interventions.
An intervention documentation system can be an extremely effective patient care and management tool. The system currently in effect at UCSD Medical Center owed its success primarily to computerization. Using a computerized documentation system, the clinical pharmacists documented their activities in a quick and simple manner without ever leaving the patient care areas. In this way, the clinical pharmacists could concentrate their efforts on positively affecting therapeutic patient care outcomes with minimum disruption. On the management side, the Department of Pharmacy now has a very powerful method to demonstrate the activities of the clinical pharmacist to hospital administration. The future of this type of a program is to effectively demonstrate positive patient care outcomes as a result of the activities of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy program.
D002140:California; D003199:Computer Systems; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D004360:Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000639:trends; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis