Clinical Pharmacists in the Emergency Department

Randers Regional Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medication Reconciliation

Treatments: Procedure: Clinical pharmacists conduct medication history

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02223676

1-16-02-379-13

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 448 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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448 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Clinical pharmacists conduct medication history

Treatment:

Procedure: Clinical pharmacists conduct medication history

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

standard procedures for admission is followed