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ArticlePharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Clinical Outcomes Used in Clinical Pharmacy Intervention Studies in Secondary Care.

Lene Juel Kjeldsen, Charlotte Olesen, Merete Kjær Hansen, Trine Rune Høgh Nielsen

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Article in Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lene Juel KjeldsenThe Danish Research Unit for Hospital Pharmacy, Amgros I/S, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. ljk@amgros.dk.
Charlotte OlesenThe Hospital Pharmacy, Central Denmark Region, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. CHAOLN@auh.rm.dk.
Merete Kjær HansenStatistics and Pharmacoepidemiology, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. mekjha@cancer.dk.
Trine Rune Høgh NielsenRegion Zealand Hospital Pharmacy, 4700 Næstved, Denmark. trn@regionsjaelland.dk.ORCID 0000-0002-5673-9942

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective was to investigate type, frequency and result of clinical outcomes used in studies to assess the effect of clinical pharmacy interventions in inpatient care. The literature search using Pubmed.gov was performed for the period up to 2013 using the search phrases: "Intervention(s)" and "pharmacist(s)" and "controlled" and "outcome(s)" or "effect(s)". Primary research studies in English of controlled, clinical pharmacy intervention studies, including outcome evaluation, were selected. Titles, abstracts and full-text papers were assessed individually by two reviewers, and inclusion was determined by consensus. In total, 37 publications were included in the review. The publications presented similar intervention elements but differed in study design. A large variety of outcome measures (135) had been used to evaluate the effect of the interventions; most frequently clinical measures/assessments by physician and health care service use. No apparent pattern was established among primary outcome measures with significant effect in favour of the intervention, but positive effect was most frequently related to studies that included power calculations and sufficient inclusion of patients (73% vs. 25%). This review emphasizes the importance of considering the relevance of outcomes selected to assess clinical pharmacy interventions and the importance of conducting a proper power calculation.

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clinical pharmacyeffecthospitaloutcomesreview

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PMID28970440
PMCPMC5597153

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