Pharmacist's interventions on outpatient prescriptions in a university hospital drugs sales service

• Published in: Annales pharmaceutiques françaises Vol. 73; no. 4; p. 297
• Main Authors: Chappuy, M, Garcia, S, Uhres, A-C, Janoly-Dumenil, A, Dessault, J, Chamouard, V, Bréant, V, Leboucher, G, Pivot, C, Carpentier, I
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: French
• Published: France 01.07.2015
• Subjects: Drug Prescriptions; Hospitals, University - organization & administration; Humans; Medication Errors - prevention & control; Outpatients; Pharmacists; Pharmacy Service, Hospital - organization & administration; Prospective Studies; Rétrocession; Prescriptions analysis; Hospital-city; Hôpital-ville; Hospital drugs sales service; Interventions pharmaceutiques; Prescriptions; Medications errors; Pharmaceutical interventions; Problème médicamenteux
• ISSN: 0003-4509
• DOI: 10.1016/j.pharma.2014.11.001

For public health reasons, some drugs are only available in hospital drugs sales service. This activity takes place in a specific risk context of organization, patients and/or drugs. A systematic prescription analysis by pharmacist contributes to securise treatment dispensed. The aim of this paper is to present the main drugs problems in the analysis of outpatient prescriptions and pharmaceutical interventions in three units of hospital drugs sales service belong to university hospital. Throughout the year 2013, drug problems detected were recorded prospectively and systematically. Of the 22,279 prescriptions analyzed, 247 pharmaceutical interventions (1.1%) were detected including 27.6% of problems concerning the dosages, 15.4% the unconformity, 6.9% contraindications. Regarding ATC drugs classes, we found 43.7% for anti-infectives and 17.4% for antineoplatics. The overall acceptance rate is 81.8%. These results show the importance of the analysis of outpatient prescriptions before dispensing and the need to have all prescriptions, clinical and biological elements and to develop interprofessionality. The implementation of a platform for dematerialized data exchanges between professionals, including data from the pharmaceutical patient record should contribute to improving drug management of the patient.