Clinical benefits and economic impact of post-surgical care provided by pharmacists in a Canadian hospital

Abstract

The pharmacist's role in the management of the drug therapy needs of the post-surgical patient has the potential to improve clinical and patient outcomes and avoid healthcare costs. The inclusion of clinical pharmacists in surgical wards may result in $7 in savings for every $1 invested.

Attitudes of physicians, nurses and pharmacists concerning the development of clinical pharmacy activities in a university hospital

“…It is interesting that for these two statements the mean scores of agreement were among the lowest for all three professional groups. Despite many reports about a positive economic impact of clinical pharmacists' activities in the literature (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27), physicians and nurses found those clinical pharmacists' activities less important. Budgeting and cost containment in the hospital is the responsibility of managers rather than pharmacists.…”

Integration of a clinical pharmacist into a Canadian, urban emergency department: a prospective observational study

“…lack of independent review) and lack of definitions for type of interventions (i.e. miscategorized interventions may result in fluctuations of cost estimates) . Our study addressed these limitations by examining both cost and clinical implications, using an independent review panel (including arbitration) for recommendation assessment, not excluding any recommendations from panel review, and the use of a priori defined categories for intervention classification.…”

Developing an economic case of clinical pharmacists' interventions on venous thromboembolism prophylaxis through service evaluation

“…[81213] These probabilities of VTE and bleeding were corresponded to the basic probability setting of ADEs (0, 0.01, 0.1, 0.4, and 0.6) which were extrapolated from the previous studies. [111415] To determine the probability of VTE (0.1 for the medical patients, 0.4 for the surgical patients) and bleeding (0.01) as ADEs caused by inappropriate VTEP was also based on previous studies and published reports. [139161718]…”