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| Pharmaceutical care provided by Doctor of Pharmacy clerkship students in geriatric patients in an acute setting | | Author(s) | Marie A Chisholm, A Thomas Taylor, David W Hawkins |
| Journal title | Journal of Geriatric Drug Therapy, vol 11, no 4, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 43-50 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Drugs ; In-patients ; Students ; Teaching hospitals ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 15 Doctor of Pharmacy students at University of Georgia College of Pharmacy assigned to general medicine or family medicine teams at Georgia Hospital Medical College participated in this study. Objectives included: teaching to identify, document, solve, and prevent medication-related problems; documenting the number and types of recommendations made; determining doctor acceptance rate of suggestions; determining potential impact of recommendations on patient care; and comparing recommendations for geriatric patients to non-geriatric patients. Of 174 recommendations, 57 concerned patients aged over 65. 51 (89.5%) were accepted by doctors. Improper medication selection, untreated indication, and overdosage prompted more than half of these recommendations, of which the most frequent were anti-infective, cardiovascular, and gastro-intestinal classes. Two pharmacists evaluated accepted recommendations using Hatoum's criteria for assessing potential impact on patient care. The authors conclude that pharmacy students can have a positive impact on geriatric patient care in an acute care environment. This article also appears as a chapter in `Geriatric drug therapy interventions', edited by James W Cooper (Haworth Press, 1997). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980806003 A |
| Classmark | LLD: LF7: XN: V6: 7T |
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