ArticleEuropean geriatric medicine2021
Effects of hospital pharmacist interventions on health outcomes in older polymedicated inpatients: a scoping review.
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- Hospital Pharmacists' Perspectives on Documenting and Classifying Pharmaceutical Interventions: A Nationwide Validation Study in Portugal.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The integration of hospital pharmacists into primary care settings in Shenzhen, China: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Multidisciplinary medication review during older patient hospitalization according to STOPP/START criteria reduces potentially inappropriate prescriptions: MoPIM cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- [INTERPOLAR-prospective, interventional studies as part of the Medical Informatics Initiative to improve medication therapy safety in healthcare].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2024Article
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- Primary care pharmacist-led medication review in older adult patients in coordination with general practitioners: an observational retrospective cohorts study.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2024Article
- Mortality and Hospitalizations Among Patients Enrolled in an Interprofessional Medication Management Program.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2023Article
- SPUR: A Patient-Reported Medication Adherence Model as a Predictor of Admission and Early Readmission in Patients Living with Type 2 Diabetes.Patient preference and adherence · 2023Article
- Research status and hotspots of medication safety in older adults: A bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
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Abstract
purposeTo identify the evidence that supports the effect of interventions made by hospital pharmacists, individually or in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, in terms of healthcare outcomes, a more effective utilization of resources and lower costs in older polymedicated inpatients.
methodsWe searched the following databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library. We also conducted a hand search by checking the references cited in the primary studies and studies included in reviews identified during the process of research. Four review authors working by pairs searched for studies, extracted data, and drew up the results tables.
resultsTwenty-six studies were included in the review. In 13 of them pharmacists carried out their intervention exclusively while the patients were in hospital, whereas in 13 interventions were delivered during admission and after hospital discharge. Outcomes identified were mortality, length of stay, visits to the emergency department, readmissions and reported quality of life, among others. Pharmacist interventions were found to be beneficial in fifteen studies, specifically on hospital readmissions, visits to the emergency department and healthcare costs.
conclusionThere is no hard evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of hospital pharmacist interventions in older polymedicated patients. Mortality does not show as a relevant outcome. Other health care outcomes, such as hospital readmissions, visits to the emergency department and healthcare costs, seem to be more relevant and amenable to change. Interventions that include pharmacists in multidisciplinary geriatric teams seem to be more promising that isolated pharmacist interventions. Interventions prolonged after hospital discharge seem to be more appropriate that interventions delivered only during hospital admission. Better-designed studies should be conducted in the future to provide further insight into the effect of hospital pharmacist interventions.
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