Wade N Harrison, Vineeta S Mittal, Jennifer K O'Toole, Ricardo A Quinonez, Richard Mink, JoAnna K Leyenaar
Child Health Needs and the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Workforce: 2020-2040
Pediatrics
hypertensive heart failure patients frequently require multiple drug therapy may associated drugrelated problems drps determine frequency types predictors drps acceptance pharmacists interventions among hospitalized hypertensive heart failure patients prospective crosssectional study internal medicine department wards korle bu teaching hospital kbth january june 2019 using validated form pharmaceutical care form used clinical pharmacists medical department drps classified based pharmaceutical care network europe pcne classification scheme drps v802 descriptive inferential statistics used data analysis total 247 drps identified 134 patients mean number drps 184 sd 1039 per patient drps occurred prescribing process 405 ndrps 100 highest prescribing problem untreated indication 117 n 29 frequent drps medication counseling need 251 n 62 administration errors 101n 25 drug interaction 105 n 26 inappropriate monitoring 105 n 26 number drugs received significantly predicted number drps adjusted odds ratio aor 985 95 ci 2044750 p 0001 clinical variables significant predictors number drps diabetic status aor 041 95 ci 018098 p 005 statin use aor 034 95 ci 014081 p 005 antiplatelet use aor 595 95 ci 2031748 p 001 average acceptance interventions physicians 716 sd 117 706 n 48 accepted interventions implemented physicians resolved drps frequently occur problems identified prescribing process medication counseling frequently needed patients number drugs clinical factors predicted occurrence drps physicians accepted implemented interventions findings suggest clinical pharmacists important role cardiovascular patient care study replicated hospitals ghana corroborate findings