Pharmacist participation on physician rounds and adverse drug events in the intensive care unit
Leape LL, Cullen DJ, et al. Pharmacist participation on physician rounds and adverse drug events in the intensive care unit. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1999;282:267-270.
To measure the effect of pharmacist participation on medical rounds in the ICU on the rate of preventable adverse drug events (ADEs) caused by ordering errors, the authors compared between phase 1 (baseline) and phase 2 (after intervention implemented), and also compared phase 2 with a control unit that did not receive the intervention. The rate of preventable ordering ADEs decreased by 66% during the intervention when pharmacists participated on physician rounds. In the control unit, the rate was essentially unchanged during the same time periods.
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