title: Detecting and managing drug-related problems in the neurology ward of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Iran: A clinical pharmacist's intervention.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Nowadays, the role of clinical pharmacists has become more prominent by more clinical pharmacists joining the health-care teams. This study was aimed to assess the role of a clinical pharmacist specialist in detecting and managing drug-related problems (DRPs) in the neurology ward of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Iran.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a prospective cross-sectional study conducted on 123 hospitalized patients admitted to the neurology ward of a teaching hospital. The clinical pharmacist visited the patients and filled out the designed pharmacotherapy sheet for each patient. Then, the general pharmacist checked the patients' files and pharmacotherapy sheets and categorized DRPs using modified method of "The Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe classification, Version 5.01."
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 168 errors were found and 346 interventions were done by the clinical pharmacist during the study period. The most common form of errors in our study was "drug choice problems" (57.76%). The acceptance rate of interventions was 41.91% among physicians.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The large number of interventions reported in several studies, as well as this study, revealed that clinical pharmacy services could contribute to a rationalization of drug therapy and may eventually lead to more medication safety.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Neurology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Farzaneh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Foroughinia
authors.affiliation: Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Seyyed Ramtin
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Tazarehie
authors.affiliation: Clinical Neurology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Peyman
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Petramfar
keywords: Crldinical pharmacist's intervention; drug safety; drug-related problems; neurology ward