Clinical evaluation of pharmacists' interventions on multidisciplinary lung transplant outpatients' management : results of a 7-year observational study

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OBJECTIVES: Lung transplant (LT) recipients require multidisciplinary care because of the complexity of therapeutic management. Pharmacists are able to detect drug-related problems and provide recommendations to physicians through pharmacists' interventions (PIs). We aimed at assessing the clinical impact of PIs on therapeutic management in LT outpatients.

DESIGN: Data were collected prospectively from an LT recipients cohort during 7 years. A multidisciplinary committee assessed retrospectively the clinical impact of accepted PIs.

SETTING: French University Hospital.

PARTICIPANTS: LT outpatients followed from 2009 to 2015.

PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Clinical impact of PIs performed by pharmacists using the CLEO tool and the Pareto chart.

RESULTS: 1449 PIs led to a change in patient therapeutic management and were mainly related to wrong dosage (39.6%) and untreated indication (19.6%). The clinical impact of PIs was 'avoids fatality', 'major' and 'moderate', in 0.1%, 7.0% and 57.9%, respectively. Immunosuppressants, antimycotics for systemic use and antithrombotic agents had the greatest clinical impact according to the Pareto chart. PIs related to drug-drug interactions (10%) mainly had a moderate and major clinical impact (82.3%, p<0.0001).

CONCLUSION: Clinical pharmacists play a key role for detecting drug-related problems mostly leading to a change in therapeutic management among LT outpatients. Our study provides a new insight to analyse the clinical impact of PIs in order to target PIs which have most value and contribute to patient care through interdisciplinary approach.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

BMJ open - 10(2020), 11 vom: 27. Nov., Seite e041563

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Duwez, Marion [VerfasserIn]
Chanoine, Sébastien [VerfasserIn]
Lepelley, Marion [VerfasserIn]
Vo, Thi Ha [VerfasserIn]
Pluchart, Hélène [VerfasserIn]
Mazet, Roseline [VerfasserIn]
Allenet, Benoit [VerfasserIn]
Pison, Christophe [VerfasserIn]
Briault, Amandine [VerfasserIn]
Saint-Raymond, Christelle [VerfasserIn]
Camara, Boubou [VerfasserIn]
Claustre, Johanna [VerfasserIn]
Bedouch, Pierrick [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Observational Study
Respiratory medicine (see thoracic medicine)
Therapeutics
Transplant medicine

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Date Completed 06.04.2021

Date Revised 06.04.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041563

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318134977