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Trial reportJournal of hospital medicine2017

A Time and Motion Study of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Obtaining Admission Medication Histories.

Caroline B Nguyen, Rita Shane, Douglas S Bell, Galen Cook-Wiens, Joshua M Pevnick

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of hospital medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02026453 (Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians to Improve Admission Medication History Accuracy), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT02026453 nacompletednot on this map

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians to Improve Admission Medication History Accuracy

TypeinterventionalSponsorCedars-Sinai Medical CenterRan2014 to 2016Enrolled306ConditionsAdverse Drug EventsArmsPharmacist obtains admission medication history, Pharmacy technician obtains admission medication history
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Roles and impact of pharmacy technicians on hospital wards: a systematic review.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026
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  7. Implications of pharmacy students' involvement in collecting the best possible medication histories in hospital settings: A scoping review.American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists · 2025
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  9. Medication reconciliationEuropean journal of hospital pharmacy : science and practice · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Caroline B NguyenDepartment of Pharmacy Services, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Rita ShaneDepartment of Pharmacy Services, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Douglas S BellRAND Health, Santa Monica, California, USA.
Galen Cook-WiensBiostatistics, Bioinformatics and Research Informatics Center, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Joshua M PevnickDepartment of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA USA.

Funding

UCLA Clinical and Translational Science InstituteKL2TR000122 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI DUBINETT, STEVEN M. · 2012 to 2015
$4.5M
Minimizing Errors in Medication Histories Obtained at Hospital AdmissionK23AG049181 · NIA · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI PEVNICK, JOSHUA M · 2015 to 2018
$707k
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR000122NIA NIH HHS K23 AG049181NIA NIH HHS L30 AG048588
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pharmacists' admission medication histories (AMHs) are known to reduce adverse drug events (ADEs). Pharmacist-supervised pharmacy technicians (PSPTs) have also been used in this role. Nonetheless, few studies estimate the costs of utilizing PSPTs to obtain AMHs. We used time and motion methodology to study the time and cost required for pharmacists and PSPTs to obtain AMHs for patients at high risk for ADEs. Pharmacists and PSPTs required 58.5 (95% confidence interval [CI], 46.9-70.1) and 79.4 (95% CI, 59.1-99.8) minutes per patient, respectively (P = 0.14). PSPT-obtained AMHs also required 26.0 (95% CI, 14.9-37.1) minutes of pharmacist supervision per patient. Based on 2015 US Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, we estimated the cost of having pharmacists and PSPTs obtain AMHs to be $55.91 (95% CI, 44.9-67.0) and $45.00 (95% CI, 29.7-60.4), respectively, which included pharmacist supervisory cost, per patient (P = 0.32). Thus, we found no statistically significant difference in time or cost between the two provider types. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2017;12:180-183.

Indexed as

Time and Motion StudiesAcademic Medical CentersAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMedication ReconciliationPatient AdmissionPharmacistsPharmacy Service, HospitalPharmacy Technicians

Identifiers

PMID28272596
PMCPMC5866092

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