PHarmacist Avoidance or Reductions in Medical Costs in Patients Presenting the EMergency Department : PHARM-EM Study

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To comprehensively classify interventions performed by emergency medicine clinical pharmacists and quantify cost avoidance generated through their accepted interventions.

DESIGN: A multicenter, prospective, observational study was performed between August 2018 and January 2019.

SETTING: Community and academic hospitals in the United States.

PARTICIPANTS: Emergency medicine clinical pharmacists.

INTERVENTIONS: Recommendations classified into one of 38 intervention categories associated with cost avoidance.

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Eighty-eight emergency medicine pharmacists at 49 centers performed 13,984 interventions during 917 shifts that were accepted on 8,602 patients and generated $7,531,862 of cost avoidance. The quantity of accepted interventions and cost avoidance generated in six established categories were as follows: adverse drug event prevention (1,631 interventions; $2,225,049 cost avoidance), resource utilization (628; $310,582), individualization of patient care (6,122; $1,787,170), prophylaxis (24; $22,804), hands-on care (3,533; $2,836,811), and administrative/supportive tasks (2,046; $342,881). Mean cost avoidance was $538.61 per intervention, $875.60 per patient, and $8,213.59 per emergency medicine pharmacist shift. The annualized cost avoidance from an emergency medicine pharmacist was $1,971,262. The monetary cost avoidance to pharmacist salary ratio was between $1.4:1 and $10.6:1.

CONCLUSIONS: Pharmacist involvement in the care of patients presenting to the emergency department results in significant avoidance of healthcare costs, particularly in the areas of hands-on care and adverse drug event prevention. The potential monetary benefit-to-cost ratio for emergency medicine pharmacists is between $1.4:1 and $10.6:1.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:3

Enthalten in:

Critical care explorations - 3(2021), 4 vom: 23. Apr., Seite e0406

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rech, Megan A [VerfasserIn]
Adams, William [VerfasserIn]
Smetana, Keaton S [VerfasserIn]
Gurnani, Payal K [VerfasserIn]
Van Berkel Patel, Megan A [VerfasserIn]
Peppard, William J [VerfasserIn]
Hammond, Drayton A [VerfasserIn]
Flannery, Alexander H [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cost
Journal Article
Medical care
Medication
Pharmacist
Safety
Value

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Date Revised 20.09.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1097/CCE.0000000000000406

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM324661436