Interventions by a clinical pharmacist had a major impact on reducing prescribing errors in the study period, thus improving the quality and safety of care provided.
Paediatric patients had a fourfold higher risk of serious errors than the maternity population. Pharmacist intervention had a major impact on reducing prescribing errors in the study period, thus improving the quality and efficiency of care provided.
We describe a systematic method for clinical pharmacists to record their activities and assess their value. This methodology should help in the development of clinical pharmacy in Spain and should be translatable to other settings.
The multidisciplinary programme has been effective in reducing bleeding episodes. The interventions were effective in reducing antithrombotic drugs overdosage, incorporating the use of fondaparinux to the NSTE-ACS therapeutic arsenal, limiting the use of bivalirudin with abciximab and obtaining body weight for most patients.
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