[Feedback on the evaluation of clinical pharmacy activities developed in surgery]

Ann Pharm Fr. 2015 Mar;73(2):123-32. doi: 10.1016/j.pharma.2014.09.001. Epub 2014 Sep 27.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Introduction: Our current development strategy integrates clinical pharmacy activities prioritized in surgical services. Patients in these services are typically risk patients: transfers, multiple prescribers, frequent medication change, pharmacotherapeutic risk classes.

Patients and methods: Three clinical pharmacy activities (admission reconciliation, pharmaceutical analysis, participation doctors round) have been developed in orthopaedic surgery and neurosurgery. Pharmacists prospectively recorded data describing their activities: number of reconciliations and analyzed requirements and time required to achieve them. Data on pharmaceutical interventions were recorded on the basis ActIP®. The clinical significance of interventions was retrospectively rated by a team of two pharmacists and two physicians on the scale adapted Hatoum et al.

Results: Four thousand five hundred pharmaceutical analysis and 248 reconciliations were conducted. One hundred and fifty-six pharmaceutical interventions were issued. The average acceptance rate was 80%. A total of 5.8% of pharmaceutical interventions have been listed with a very significant clinical importance and 48.1% with at least significant clinical importance. The activities and documentation required pharmaceutical average daily time (senior pharmacist, resident and external pharmacist) about 6 hours.

Discussion and conclusion: Other studies, including comparative and medico-economic, must be conducted to support these results. Nevertheless, the indicators obtained attend a better readability of the clinical importance of the activities performed by clinical pharmacists and this particularly in surgical services, both by prescribers and authorities.

Keywords: Chirurgie; Clinical impact; Clinical pharmacy; Impact clinique; Intervention pharmaceutique; Pharmaceutical intervention; Pharmacie clinique; Surgery.

MeSH terms

  • General Surgery*
  • Humans
  • Medication Reconciliation
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / analysis
  • Pharmacists*
  • Pharmacy Service, Hospital / organization & administration*
  • Prospective Studies

Substances

  • Pharmaceutical Preparations