RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 OHP-033 Patients’ home treatment upon hospitalisation
JF European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy
JO Eur J Hosp Pharm
FD British Medical Journal Publishing Group
SP A199
OP A200
DO 10.1136/ejhpharm-2015-000639.480
VO 22
IS Suppl 1
A1 M Alonso-Dominguez
A1 S Fernandez-Cañabate
A1 M Ventura-Lopez
A1 I De Gorostiza-Frías
A1 B Arribas-Díaz
A1 M Sánchez-Mulero
A1 AM Rizo-Cerdá
A1 P Selvi-Sabater
A1 I Sánchez-Martinez
A1 N Manresa-Ramón
YR 2015
UL http://ejhp.bmj.com/content/22/Suppl_1/A199.2.abstract
AB Background Some patients directly hospitalised via the emergency department are changed from their current home treatment. The pharmacy department aims to identify any errors and rectify them.PurposeTo find out how many home treatment prescriptions could lead to an error in patients hospitalised by the emergency medical service.To identify any issues and analyse them.Material and methods Prospective observational study. 366 Patients hospitalised from January 2014 were followed.The analysis included: medicines prescribed 48 h after admission, age, gender, team on duty and problems related to the home treatment. We classified the issues found as:Treatment not followed at allTreatment partially followed.Patient’s previous medicines not stated.Patient’s previous medicines stated incorrectly.Illegible writing.Data source: Savac (prescription and clinical history records), Selene (specialist care medical history records).Results 366 consultant prescriptions were analysed. 30% of them were for a home treatment.Patient characteristics: Males: 51%; 85% of the patients were over 60 years; the Internal Medicine ward had the highest number of admissions, 32%; 4.7% of the patients had problems related to home treatmentBased on our classification of the issues found to do with home treatment, the following frequencies were obtained:Type 1: 31.5%;Type 2: 6.25%;Type 3:37.5%Type 4:18.7%;Type 5: 6.25%Conclusion Issues related to home treatment were identified in 4.7% of the patients.The most common issue was type 3: Patient’s previous medicines not stated.The ward with the highest number of issues detected was the orthopaedic surgery department.ReferenceTomás S, Chanovas M, Roqueta F, Alcaraz J, Toranzo T, Grupo EVADUR-SEMES. EVADUR: eventos adversos ligados a la asistencia en los servicios de urgencias de hospitales españoles. Emergencias 2010;22:415–28ReferenceNo conflict of interest.