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ArticleJournal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences2023

Significance of pharmacist intervention to oral antithrombotic therapy in the pharmaceutical outpatient clinic of cardiovascular internal medicine: a retrospective cohort study.

Tomoko Kurimura, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Hidekazu Tanaka, Takayoshi Toba, Takeshi Kimura, Yasushi Habu, Kotaro Itohara, Yumi Kitahiro, Tomohiro Omura, Ikuko Yano

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Article in Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Tomoko Kurimura *Department of Pharmacy, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Kazuhiro Yamamoto *Department of Pharmacy, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Hidekazu TanakaDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Takayoshi TobaDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Takeshi KimuraDepartment of Pharmacy, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Yasushi HabuDepartment of Drug Informatics, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan.
Kotaro ItoharaDepartment of Pharmacy, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Yumi KitahiroDepartment of Pharmacy, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Tomohiro OmuraDepartment of Pharmacy, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
Ikuko YanoDepartment of Pharmacy, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan. iyano@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9517-5628
Kobe University Hospital · JPKobe University · JPKobe Pharmaceutical University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOptimised antithrombotic therapy requires clinical experience and an understanding of the current guidelines. This retrospective study aimed to evaluate whether pharmacist interviews and interventions with patients taking oral antithrombotic drugs in the pharmaceutical outpatient cardiology clinic had favourable clinical outcomes including decreased bleeding.

methodsThe participants included patients visiting the outpatient clinic of cardiovascular internal medicine at the Kobe University Hospital from January-December 2017, and were taking oral antithrombotic medication. The observation period was from the first visit to the outpatient clinic to October 2021 or death. Patients who received pharmacist intervention more than twice were defined as the pharmacist intervention group. Two control patients per one pharmacist intervention group individual were selected from the non-intervention pool matched for age, gender and antithrombotic medication type.

resultsOf the 895 eligible patients, 132 were in the pharmacist intervention group and 264 were selected for the matched non-intervention group. Bleeding events according to the Bleeding Academic Research Consortium criteria over type 2 were significantly lower in the pharmacist intervention group compared with the non-intervention group (17.4% versus 28.4%, P = 0.019). There were no significant differences in mortality and heart failure hospitalisation frequency, stroke, or cardiovascular events between the groups. Multivariate analysis identified age (≥ 65 years) and pharmacist intervention as factors associated with bleeding (odds ratio = 2.29 and 0.51, respectively).

conclusionPharmacist intervention in the outpatient clinic of cardiovascular internal medicine was effective in reducing the risk of bleeding in patients undergoing antithrombotic therapy.

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Antithrombotic drugsBARC bleedingOutpatientPharmacist intervention

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