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ArticlePharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)2020

The Use of a Decision Support System in Swedish Pharmacies to Identify Potential Drug-Related Problems-Effects of a National Intervention Focused on Reviewing Elderly Patients' Prescriptions.

Tora Hammar, Lina Hellström, Lisa Ericson

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Article in Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tora HammarThe eHealth Institute, Department of Medicine and Optometry, Linnaeus University, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-1549-2469
Lina HellströmThe eHealth Institute, Department of Medicine and Optometry, Linnaeus University, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5211-8818
Lisa EricsonThe Swedish eHealth Agency, 391 29 Kalmar, Sweden.
Linnaeus University · SE

Funding

This research was funded by the Swedish pharmacy association (Sveriges Apoteksförening), Unionen (Swedish trade union) and Swedish pharmaceutical society (Apotekarsocieteten). no grant number
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In pharmacies in Sweden, a clinical decision support system called Electronic Expert Support (EES) is available to analyse patients' prescriptions for potential drug-related problems. A nationwide intervention was performed in 2018 among all Swedish pharmacy chains to increase the use of EES among patients 75 years or older. The aim of this research was to study the use of EES in connection with the national intervention in order to describe any effects of the intervention, to understand how pharmacists use EES and to identify any barriers and facilitators for the use of EES by pharmacists for elderly patients. Data on the number and categories of EES analyses, alerts, resolved alerts and active pharmacies was provided by the Swedish eHealth Agency. The effects of the intervention were analysed using interrupted time series regression. A web-based questionnaire comprising 20 questions was sent to 1500 pharmacists randomly selected from all pharmacies in Sweden. The study shows that pharmacists use and appreciate EES and that the national intervention had a clear effect during the week of the intervention and seems to have contributed to a faster increase in pharmacists' use of EES during the year to follow. The study also identified several issues or barriers for using EES.

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clinical decision support systemdrug-related problemsinterrupted time series analysispharmacyquestionnaire

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PMID32668586
PMCPMC7558108
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