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- Title
Impact of clinical pharmacists in an inpatient medical oncology service: A prospective study at a comprehensive cancer center in Jordan.
- Authors
Faqeer, Nour; Mustafa, Nour; Abd Al-jalil, Noor; Qur'an, Tasnim
- Abstract
Introduction: Clinical pharmacy is considered an integral discipline in the health care system for optimizing therapy and reducing drug-related problems. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of clinical pharmacists in optimizing management in a medical oncology service. Methods: A prospective study was conducted at King Hussein Cancer Center between July 2019 and September 2019 of patients admitted to the medical oncology service. The impact of clinical pharmacists was measured by evaluating their interventions, defined as actions that were expected to result in a change in patient management. Data were collected daily by routine review of patients' profiles and by recording clinical pharmacists' interventions. The data collected were baseline characteristics of patients, numbers and types of clinical pharmacists' interventions, their significance, medications involved, and rate of acceptance of clinical pharmacists' interventions by physicians. The significance of each intervention was assessed by two clinical pharmacists on a Hatoum scale. Physicians' acceptance was assessed by whether the recommendations were implemented. Results: During the study period, 748 patients were included, of whom 605 required a total of 1683 clinical interventions. The mean age was 56.3 years (±15.5 SD). Of the interventions, 39% resulted in initiation of a drug and 25% in drug discontinuations. The drug group most commonly associated with clinical pharmacists' interventions was antibiotics (26.5%). Physicians accepted 98% of the clinical pharmacists' interventions, and 92.4% of the interventions brought care to a more appropriate level and were considered significant. Conclusion: Most patients in the medical oncology service required clinical pharmacists' interventions, as demonstrated by the high number of significant clinical pharmacists' interventions. Studies should be conducted to follow up these findings with respect to patient outcomes and cost savings.
- Subjects
JORDAN; EVALUATION of medical care; HOSPITAL patients; SPECIALTY hospitals; SCIENTIFIC observation; COST control; HOSPITAL pharmacies; CANCER treatment; CANCER patients; HOSPITAL care; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; DATA analysis software; CANCER patient medical care; DISEASE management; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice, 2021, Vol 27, Issue 4, p897
- ISSN
1078-1552
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1078155220943277