Clinical Pharmacist’s Role in Preventing Adverse Drug Events: Brief Update Review

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  • Peter Glassman
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Introduction In our original report, “Making Health Care Safer” 2001, Kaushal and Bates noted that over 770,000 people were harmed or died in hospitals annually from adverse drug events (ADE), with incidence rates in hospital-based studies ranging from 2 to 7 per 100 admissions. In the outpatient setting, as they also noted, one study on adults estimated the ADE incidence rate at 3 percent. The purpose of this review is to update the data on the incidence of ADEs in hospital settings and to review measures aimed at preventing these events, including the role of the clinical pharmacist. We searched the literature from 2001 to 2011 and included studies most relevant to clinical pharmacist interventions on medication errors and adverse drug events in various health care settings. Our focus was on studies that to some degree addressed the possible association between clinical pharmacist activities and improved prescribing practices and/or assessed whether such activities might lead to reduced medication errors and adverse drug events.

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تاریخ انتشار 2013