Capturing Outcomes of Clinical Activities Performed by a Rounding Pharmacist Practising in a Team Environment
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2007-07-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
We, the researchers, propose to link a clinical pharmacist with an internal medicine or
family medicine team to provide pharmaceutical care to all patients assigned to the team. The
hypothesis is that through this team based approach, pharmacists will act as a resource for
providing pharmacotherapeutic advice during the drug therapy decision making process and
promote optimal drug use by identifying and resolving actual and potential drug related
problems. This study is designed to test this hypothesis, by assessing the impact of this
intervention on evidence based, quality of drug therapy indicators, for patients admitted
with heart failure (HF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), community acquired
pneumonia (CAP), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and stable coronary artery disease (CAD).