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Nationwide evaluation of day-to-day clinical pharmacists' interventions in German hospitals.

2015

tudy Objective To describe and evaluate the extent and diversity of nationwide data from clinical pharmacists’ interventions (PIs) in German hospitals. Design Retrospective analysis. Data Source The ADKA-DokuPIK German database, a national anonymous self-reported Internet-based documentation system for routine PIs as well as for medication errors reported by German hospital pharmacists. Measurements and Main Results Data sets from ADKA-DokuPIK entered between January 2009 and December 2012 were analyzed descriptively. A total of 27,610 PIs were entered, mainly by ward-based clinical pharmacists (82.5%). Most of the PIs were performed on surgical wards (37.8%), followed by anesthesiology/int…

Barriers to medication counselling for people with mental health disorders: a six country study

2010

Provision of medication information may improve adherence and prevent medication related problems. People with mental health disorders commonly receive less medication counselling from pharmacists than people with other common long term and persistent disorders. Objective: The objective of this study was to compare and contrast barriers pharmacy students perceive toward providing medication counselling for people with mental health disorders in Australia, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, India and Latvia. Methods: Barriers identified by third-year pharmacy students as part of the International Pharmacy Students´ Health Survey were content analysed using a directed approach. Students´ responses we…

Impact of Pharmacists’ Participation in a Pharmacotherapy Follow-Up Program

2012

Objective. To evaluate the impact of a continuing pharmacy education (CPE) course on Spanish community pharmacists’ participation in a pharmacotherapy follow-up program. Design. Participation in a CPE course offered 4 times over a 4-year period via satellite teleconferencing was monitored and the data analyzed to determine the course’s impact on community pharmacists’ participation in a pharmacotherapy follow-up program. Assessment. Community pharmacists’ participation in the pharmaceutical care CPE course had a slightly positive impact on their participation in the pharmacotherapy follow-up program. In the best profiles, there was a probability of 7.3% that participants would participate i…

DD-008 Monitoring of the adherence to therapies for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension

2015

Background Adherence to the treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is an important aspect of chronic disease management to improve the efficacy of treatment. 1 Purpose The study aimed to evaluate adherence to long-term drug treatments for PAH. Material and methods From 01/01/2010 to 04/01/2014 a retrospective analysis was done on therapeutic plans and prescriptions related to patients in treatment for at least one year by the Pneumology Unit. Items dispensed by the Clinical Pharmacist were analysed through data entered into the database F file. Mean therapeutic adherence, according to the literature, 2 was calculated using the "pharmacy-refill" method: days of dispensed treatme…

PS-110 Extent and diversity of day-to-day clinical pharmacists’ interventions in hospitals

2015

Background Clinical pharmacy services (CPS) are known to improve medication safety and patients’ clinical outcome. However, in the majority of the European countries their implementation is low and there are no nationwide reports about the nature of clinical pharmacists’ interventions (CPIs) in European hospitals outside the UK. Purpose To evaluate both the extent and diversity of data about national hospital CPIs nationwide. Material and methods Datasets from ADKA-DokuPIK, an anonymous and voluntary German database for the documentation of hospital CPIs with >500 registered users, which were entered between 01/2009 and 12/2012, were analysed descriptively. Results In total, 27,610 CPIs wer…

Abstracts of papers and posters advanced activities in pharmaceutical care 24th European Symposium on Clinical Pharmacy

1995

Taking into Account Patient Preferences: A Consensus Study on the Assessment of Psychological Dimensions Within Patient Preference Studies

2021

Selena Russo,1,2,* Dario Monzani,3,4,* Cathy Anne Pinto,5 Laura Vergani,3,4 Giulia Marton,3,4 Marie Falahee,6 Gwenda Simons,6 Chiara Whichello,7 Ulrik Kihlbom,8,* Gabriella Pravettoni3,4,* 1Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy; 2Discipline of Paediatrics, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, The University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia; 3Applied Research Division for Cognitive and Psychological Science, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy; 4Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; 5Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilwor…

GRP-089 Implementation of a “Medication Safety” Curriculum as Part of the Continuing Education Programme For Pharmacists

2013

Background The ‘action plan for the improvement of medication safety’ issued by the German ministry of health demands a culture of safety awareness. To achieve this goal, an emphasis on medication safety should be placed in the education of health care professionals. In this context the German Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ADKA) has developed a curriculum on medication safety. Purpose A workshop has been developed to improve the awareness of health care professionals regarding medication errors and the risks involved. The tools allow the pharmacist to perform a self-contained failure analysis as a basis for a goal-oriented prevention strategy. Materials and Methods The curriculum consist…

Medication adherence and persistence in type 2 diabetes mellitus: perspectives of patients, physicians and pharmacists on the Spanish health care sys…

2017

Elena Labrador Barba,1 Marta Rodríguez de Miguel,1 Antonio Hernández-Mijares,2,3 Francisco Javier Alonso-Moreno,4 Maria Luisa Orera Peña,1 Susana Aceituno,5 María José Faus Dader6 1Department of Medicine, Mylan, Madrid, 2Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Doctor Peset University Hospital, Valencia, 3Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, 4Department for Primary Health Care, Centro de Salud Sillería, Toledo, 5Outcomes’10, Castellon, 6Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Granada, Spain Objective: A good relationship between diabetes pa…

PS-039 DokuPIK – Pharmaceutical interventions: Do ward pharmacists know how to document?

2014

Background The internet-based categorical, hierarchical documentation system for routine pharmaceutical interventions (PIs) DokuPIK is widely used especially among German ward-based pharmacists. Purpose To conduct a survey-based study on its clinical usability. Materials and methods Out of 498 registered DokuPIK users, 37 volunteered to independently evaluate 24 standardised case reports 1 between 01–03 2012. Case evaluation was restricted to the reason for PI and was performed based on 26 given survey items with no limit on the number of items chosen. Ratings were conducted electronically and anonymously. In order to define meaningful reference item selections, majority decisions made by 5…