Clinical Pharmacists in the Emergency Department

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Medication Reconciliation
• Interventions: Procedure: Clinical pharmacists conduct medication history

• Registration Number: NCT02223676
• Lead Sponsor: Randers Regional Hospital

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of implementing clinical pharmacists in the Emergency Department Team at Randers Regional Hospital. The clinical pharmacists conduct medication history, make medical interaction screenings, -reconciliations and -reviews on unscheduled patients admitted to the Emergency Department during daytime.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-10
• Study First Submitted: 2014-01-07
• Primary Completion: 2014-06
• Status Verified: 2014-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-08-21
• Study First Posted: 2014-08-22
• Study Completion: 2014-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-05-17
• Last Update Posted: 2018-05-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 448

Inclusion Criteria

• unscheduled patients admitted to the Emergency Department at Randers Regional Hospital at weekdays during daytime (9 am to 16.15 pm)
• 4 or more drugs prescribed

Exclusion Criteria

• patients triage red
• patients who cannot give informed consent
• terminal patients
• patients admitted to detoxification
• patients refered to the acute outpatient department
• patients remaining in the Emergency Department overnight

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Clinical pharmacists conduct medication history	Clinical pharmacists conduct medication history

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Emergency Department Length of stay	From arrival to the Emergency Department to either admission or discharge, which in average will be 6 hours.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient safety	From arrival to the Emergency Department to either admission or discharge, which in average will be 6 hours.	Number of recommended changes in drugs or dosage per patient. The changes are rated according to a PCNE-classification for drug-related problems.
Time from patient arrival to the treatment schedule is ready	From arrival to the Emergency Department to either admission or discharge, which in average will be 6 hours.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Randers Regional Hospital; 🇩🇰 Randers, Region Midt, Denmark