Impact of the Implementation of a Clinical Pharmacy Bundle on Intensive Care Unit Patient Outcomes and Cost Expenditures

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intensive Care

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02924844

IRB 14/05.03

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this before-after study was to assess the impact of a clinical pharmacy bundle of care activities on patient outcomes (length of hospital stay as a primary endpoint) and cost expenditure in two French ICUs.

Enrollment: 2,787 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Intensive Care Unit patients on weekdays

Trial design

2,787 participants in 2 patient groups

Observation period before presence of clinical pharmacist

Description:

The group of patients was observed between Janary 2013 and December 2013

Period with presence of clinical pharmacist

Description:

The group of patients was observed between January 2014 and June 2015.