What is the Impact of Implementing Pharmaceutical Algorithms in the PharmaClass® Software, on the Handling the Patient's Medication Load, by the Clinical Pharmacist? Analysis of These Impacts Within 2 Geriatric Units of the CHU Brugmann Hospital
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Pharmacist-Patient Relations
- Sponsor
- Murielle Surquin
- Enrollment
- 109
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Time
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 3 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The clinical pharmacists present in the hospitalisation units aim to ensure the daily review of the drug prescriptions of hospitalized patients.
In order to optimize their work, the objective of this study would be to provide them with a clinical decision support tool via artificial intelligence in order to improve the patient's medication management. This study will test the Pharmaclass® software.
Investigators
Murielle Surquin
Head of Geriatry Department
Brugmann University Hospital
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Hospitalized patient entering the SU06 or SU13 geriatrics unit of the Paul Brien site of the CHU Brugmann Hospital between November 16 2021 and April 15, 2022
- •Speaking French and/or Dutch
- •With chronic renal failure or taking at least one medicine for diabetes, heart, COPD, asthma, high blood pressure, epilepsy, atrial fibrillation, osteoporosis, high cholesterol, pain, parkinsonism, blood clotting, constipation, thyroid, depression, benign prostatic hypertrophy, gastric ulcer, Alzheimer's disease, cirrhosis as well as for electrolyte disorders (hypo or hypernatremia / potassium / calcium/magnesemia/phosphatemia).
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patient who died or was transferred to another care unit during his/her hospitalization
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Time
Time Frame: 5 months
Time required to perform an intervention (pharmacist versus software)
Dosage compliance
Time Frame: 5 months
Dosage compliance with existing recommendations and laboratory results/clinical parameters (pharmacist versus software)
Medication error severity
Time Frame: 5 months
Severity of the medication error that could be avoided (pharmacist versus software)
Geriatrician approval
Time Frame: 5 months
Number of interventions validated/refused by the geriatrician (pharmacist versus software)