ArticleAmerican journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists2022
A descriptive report of the rapid implementation of automated MRC-ICU calculations in the EMR of an academic medical center.
Article in American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- A Data-Driven Medication Regimen Complexity Score for Critically Ill Patients: MRC-ICU 2.0.Pharmacotherapy · 2026Observational
- Prediction of pharmacist medication interventions using medication regimen complexity.JAMIA open · 2025Article
- PharmacyGPT: exploration of artificial intelligence for medication management in the intensive care unit.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Article
- Consensus recommendations for the integration of critical care pharmacists on intensive care unit teams: Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Clinical Pharmacy, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, and Society of Critical Care Medicine.Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy : JACCP · 2025Article
- A common data model for the standardization of intensive care unit medication features.JAMIA open · 2024Article
- Unsupervised machine learning analysis to identify patterns of ICU medication use for fluid overload prediction.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Medication Regimen Complexity as Measured by the MRC-ICU to Medication Errors in Critically Ill Patients.Hospital pharmacy · 2023Article
- The use of electronic health record embedded MRC-ICU as a metric for critical care pharmacist workload.JAMIA open · 2023Article
- Machine learning vs. traditional regression analysis for fluid overload prediction in the ICU.Scientific reports · 2023Observational
- Evaluation of medication regimen complexity as a predictor for mortality.Scientific reports · 2023Observational
- Pharmacist Metrics in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: an Exploration of the Medication Regimen Complexity-Intensive Care Unit (MRC-ICU) Score.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeNumerous clinical scoring tools exist for a variety of patient populations and disease states, but few tools provide information specifically designed for use by critical care pharmacists. The medication regimen complexity-intensive care unit (MRC-ICU) score was designed to provide high-level information about the complexity of critically ill patients' medication regimens for use by critical care pharmacists. To date, implementation of this score in the electronic medical record (EMR) has not been reported. SUMMARY: Using an agile project management framework, the MRC-ICU score was rapidly implemented into an academic medical center's EMR. The score is automatically calculated for all critically ill patients and is available for critical care pharmacists to triage patient review in their individual workflow. Reporting capabilities of the score also allow for granular complexity trending over time and between units, supplementing other objective measures of pharmacist workload.
conclusionThe MRC-ICU score can be quickly implemented into the EMR for pharmacist use in real time. Future investigations into how pharmacists utilize this information and how to harness reporting capabilities for pharmacist workload assessment are warranted.
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