Patients in a pre-operative setting: drug-related problems, associated pharmaceutical interventions, risk factors and development of a risk prediction tool. A retrospective case control study at the University Hospital Salzburg.
- Conditions
- Z71Persons encountering health services for other counselling and medical advice, not elsewhere classified
- Registration Number
- DRKS00028763
- Lead Sponsor
- Institut für Pharmazie der Paracelsus MedizinischenPrivatuniversität (PMU) Salzburg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1264
Inclusion Criteria
Patients
- who were undergoing elective surgery in the year 2021.
- who participated in the pharmaceutical medication review at the pre-anaesthesia outpatient clinic in time of hospital admission.
- are = 18 years old.
Case-group:
- all patients with documented drug-related problem(s)
Control-group:
- patients without drug-related problem(s) (randomly selection)
Exclusion Criteria
Patients not complying with the inclusion criteria.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Identification and subsequent validation of risk factors for potential and manifest drug-related problems of patients undergoing elective surgery at the time of hospital admission. Retrospective data collection (primary data) via the hospital information system.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Impact of the clinical-pharmaceutical service<br>on patient safety. The drug-related problems are characterised according to the PCNE classification and statistically evaluated. <br>