NCT02223676

Clinical Pharmacists in the Emergency Department

Is Length of Stay in the Emergency Department Reduced When Clinical Pharmacists Conduct Medication History? - a Cluster Randomized Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 448 (actual)
• Sponsor: Randers Regional Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of implementing clinical pharmacists in the Emergency Department Team at Randers Regional Hospital. The clinical pharmacists conduct medication history, make medical interaction screenings, -reconciliations and -reviews on unscheduled patients admitted to the Emergency Department during daytime.

Conditions

• Medication Reconciliation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Clinical pharmacists conduct medication history	pharmacists conduct medication history before the physician interviews the patient and does not spend time on conducting medical history

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-10-01
• Primary completion: 2014-06-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2014-08-22
• Last updated: 2018-05-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark