NCT06222424

Emergency Medicine Pharmacist Prescriptive Authority for Resolution of Outpatient Prescription Issues

Emergency Medicine Pharmacist Prescriptive Authority for Resolution of Outpatient Prescription Issues: A Descriptive Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 350 (actual)
• Sponsor: Methodist Health System · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to document the utility of Methodist Charlton Medical Center (MCMC's)Emergency Medicine Pharmacist (EMP) Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA )utilization for the resolution of outpatient prescription issues. Evaluation of utility will involve describing all EMP-written prescriptions pursuant to resolution of prescription issues realized after discharge.

Detailed description

Use of an EMP CPA, which allows for broad prescriptive authority, will assist Emergency Department (ED )workflow by preventing a significant volume of new prescriptions needing to be sent by physician and mid-level providers. Will improve rates of ED re-visits. In addition, this Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) will not be associated with a large volume of new prescription errors.

Conditions

• Outpatient Prescription Issues

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	outpatient prescription issues	Evaluation of utility will involve describing all Emergency Medicine Pharmacist (EMP)-written prescriptions pursuant to resolution of prescription issues realized after discharge

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-12-15
• Primary completion: 2026-03-01
• Completion: 2026-03-15
• First posted: 2024-01-24
• Last updated: 2026-03-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States