ArticleEinstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Interventions of the clinical pharmacist in an Intermediate Care Unit for elderly patients.
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- Clinical Pharmaceutical Care in Nursing Home Residents as a Cornerstone for Drug-Related Problems Identification.Clinical and translational science · 2025Observational
- A Clinical Pharmacy Service to Prevent Drug-Drug Interactions and Potentially Inappropriate Medication: A Consecutive Intervention Study in Older Intermediate Care Patients of a Regional Hospital.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Drug-related problems among hospitalized hypertensive and heart failure patients and physician acceptance of pharmacists' interventions at a teaching hospital in Ghana.Health science reports · 2022Article
- Patient Factors Associated with Pharmaceutical Interventions for Inpatients at a Brazilian Teaching Hospital.The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy · 2021Article
- Pharmaceutical intervention in the rational use of intravenous omeprazole.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo discuss the role of the clinical pharmacist in hospital care of critical elderly patients.
methodsCritical patients aged 60 years and over admitted by the clinical staff to an Intermediate Care Unit were followed-up for 4 months regarding their drug therapies. Medical prescriptions were reviewed daily on the basis of patients' clinical conditions, with the view to identify opportunities for optimization of drug therapies, contributing to safer prescribing, reduced discomfort and correct and rational use of drugs.
resultsA total of 386 prescriptions were reviewed and 212 pharmaceutical interventions performed; 64.3% of prescriptions were classified as accepted with changes, 28.5% not accepted and 7.2% verbally accepted with no changes. Interventions included drug therapy indications, directions for dose adjustment, reduction of the use of potentially inappropriate medications for older patients, prescription adjustments, discontinuing unnecessary drugs, among others.
conclusionThe significant number of interventions accepted by the healthcare staff supports the relevance of the clinical pharmacist as a member of the multiprofessional team, especially in care of the elderly.
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