What is the Impact of Implementing Pharmaceutical Algorithms in the PharmaClass® Software, on the Handling the Patient's Medication Load, by the Clinical Pharmacist?

Murielle Surquin109 enrolled

Overview

The clinical pharmacists present in the hospitalisation units aim to ensure the daily review of the drug prescriptions of hospitalized patients. In order to optimize their work, the objective of this study would be to provide them with a clinical decision support tool via artificial intelligence in order to improve the patient's medication management. This study will test the Pharmaclass® software.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

109

Conditions

Pharmacist-Patient Relations

Interventions

Pharmaclass® softwareOTHER

Clinical decision support tool via artificial intelligence in order to improve the patient's medication management.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 75 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Hospitalized patient entering the SU06 or SU13 geriatrics unit of the Paul Brien site of the CHU Brugmann Hospital between November 16 2021 and April 15, 2022 * Speaking French and/or Dutch * With chronic renal failure or taking at least one medicine for diabetes, heart, COPD, asthma, high blood pressure, epilepsy, atrial fibrillation, osteoporosis, high cholesterol, pain, parkinsonism, blood clotting, constipation, thyroid, depression, benign prostatic hypertrophy, gastric ulcer, Alzheimer's disease, cirrhosis as well as for electrolyte disorders (hypo or hypernatremia / potassium / calcium/magnesemia/phosphatemia). Exclusion Criteria: * Patient who died or was transferred to another care unit during his/her hospitalization

Locations (1)

Brugmann university hospital

Brussels, Belgium

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Time

Time required to perform an intervention (pharmacist versus software)

Time frame: 5 months

Dosage compliance

Dosage compliance with existing recommendations and laboratory results/clinical parameters (pharmacist versus software)

Time frame: 5 months

Medication error severity

Severity of the medication error that could be avoided (pharmacist versus software)

Time frame: 5 months

Geriatrician approval

Number of interventions validated/refused by the geriatrician (pharmacist versus software)

Time frame: 5 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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