Risk assessment of patients as a means of directing a clinical pharmacy service

Suggett, Emma Lucy (2017). Risk assessment of patients as a means of directing a clinical pharmacy service. University of Birmingham. Other

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Abstract

The aim of this research was to develop a new work model for hospital pharmacists based on risk assessment of patients using an electronic prescribing and administration system (EPMA).

Systematic review was performed to identify risk factors associated with clinical pharmacy intervention. Those factors which can be measured by the EPMA in a UK teaching hospital were subsequently identified. Data was extracted from the EPMA relating to risks in intervention recipients on medical and surgical wards and those patients present concurrently.

Univariable and multivariable analysis was performed and a risk score calculated. Receiver operating curves (ROCs) determined predictability of the score.
Risk factors for pharmacist intervention were: age, female gender, patient compliance, unavailable stock, prescription of warfarin, number of allergies, comorbidities, regular prescriptions, anti-epileptics, thrombolytics/anticoagulants, central nervous system agents, and chemotherapy / immunosuppressants. The area under the ROC for the risk score was 0.61.

Multiple factors were significantly and independently associated, with an increased intervention rate. However, it was not possible to generate a useful model for directing clinical pharmacy services. Inverse relationships were demonstrated between some risk factors usually associated with problems with medicines use.

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