Pharmacists' review of medicine during admission to hospital
Completed
- Conditions
- In-hospital adverse drug eventsNot ApplicableOther complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN08043800
- Lead Sponsor
- Region Zealand Hospital Pharmacy (Region Sjaelland Sygehusapoteket) (Denmark)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 648
Inclusion Criteria
1. Patients being admitted to an internal medicine ward
2. Age 18 years or more
3. Taking 4 types of medicine or more each day
4. Able to understand participant's information written in Danish
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients transferred from other hospitals in the area
2. Dying or terminally ill patients
3. Patients being discharged within 48 hours from admission
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method umber of patients with in-hospital adverse drug events, detected by Adverse Drug Event Trigger Tool.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Length of hospital stay<br>2. Number of readmissions during the first year after admission<br>3. Direct cost for the hospital