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Using xPIRT to Record Pharmacy Interventions: An Observational, Cross-Sectional and Retrospective Study
Medication errors and omissions can potentially cause harm, prolong a hospital stay, lead to co-morbidities and even death. Pharmacy interventions (PI) ensure that these errors are identified and addressed, leading to improved patient safety and prescriber practice. Particularly in community hospita...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36553974 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122450 |
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author | Baptista, Rafael Williams, Mary Price, Jayne |
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description | Medication errors and omissions can potentially cause harm, prolong a hospital stay, lead to co-morbidities and even death. Pharmacy interventions (PI) ensure that these errors are identified and addressed, leading to improved patient safety and prescriber practice. Particularly in community hospitals, many only having general practitioners and not specialist doctors in their medical teams, PIs assume a strategic role. The PIs recorded throughout 8 months (between November 2021 and June 2022) in the community hospital wards in Powys, Wales, UK, using xPIRT (Pharmacy Intervention Recording Tool), a new pharmacy intervention record toolkit, were subjected to a retrospective analysis. The data were organised by location, drug, severity, acceptance, cost avoidance and intervention type. Significant prescribing errors were identified, which can potentially be different from those recorded in acute settings. Our results also informed on the need for integrated electronic prescribing systems paired with a PI recording tool to address effectively prescribing inaccuracies. Overall, this study was able to identify pharmacy teams as key to improve patient safety and care while contributing to significant cost-savings, through the recording of PI using xPIRT. |
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spelling | pubmed-97785952022-12-23 Using xPIRT to Record Pharmacy Interventions: An Observational, Cross-Sectional and Retrospective Study Baptista, Rafael Williams, Mary Price, Jayne Healthcare (Basel) Article Medication errors and omissions can potentially cause harm, prolong a hospital stay, lead to co-morbidities and even death. Pharmacy interventions (PI) ensure that these errors are identified and addressed, leading to improved patient safety and prescriber practice. Particularly in community hospitals, many only having general practitioners and not specialist doctors in their medical teams, PIs assume a strategic role. The PIs recorded throughout 8 months (between November 2021 and June 2022) in the community hospital wards in Powys, Wales, UK, using xPIRT (Pharmacy Intervention Recording Tool), a new pharmacy intervention record toolkit, were subjected to a retrospective analysis. The data were organised by location, drug, severity, acceptance, cost avoidance and intervention type. Significant prescribing errors were identified, which can potentially be different from those recorded in acute settings. Our results also informed on the need for integrated electronic prescribing systems paired with a PI recording tool to address effectively prescribing inaccuracies. Overall, this study was able to identify pharmacy teams as key to improve patient safety and care while contributing to significant cost-savings, through the recording of PI using xPIRT. MDPI 2022-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9778595/ /pubmed/36553974 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122450 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Baptista, Rafael Williams, Mary Price, Jayne Using xPIRT to Record Pharmacy Interventions: An Observational, Cross-Sectional and Retrospective Study |
title | Using xPIRT to Record Pharmacy Interventions: An Observational, Cross-Sectional and Retrospective Study |
title_full | Using xPIRT to Record Pharmacy Interventions: An Observational, Cross-Sectional and Retrospective Study |
title_fullStr | Using xPIRT to Record Pharmacy Interventions: An Observational, Cross-Sectional and Retrospective Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Using xPIRT to Record Pharmacy Interventions: An Observational, Cross-Sectional and Retrospective Study |
title_short | Using xPIRT to Record Pharmacy Interventions: An Observational, Cross-Sectional and Retrospective Study |
title_sort | using xpirt to record pharmacy interventions: an observational, cross-sectional and retrospective study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36553974 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122450 |
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