[Concordance of medication prescription records in the hospitalised surgical patient]. / Concordancia de los registros de prescripción de medicamentos en el paciente quirúrgico hospitalizado.

INTRODUCTION: Electronic prescription is the prescription system that allows healthcare professionals to send medication prescriptions directly to community pharmacies and the outpatient unit of Hospital Pharmacy Services for dispensing. However, there is difficulty in obtaining a reliable pharmacotherapeutic history in chronic patients through electronic prescription upon hospital admission as a critical point for adequate treatment adaptation. Therefore, the pharmacist as a member of the multidisciplinary team must ensure, through medication conciliation, an adequate transition of care through the correct management of the treatment that the chronic patient requires during their hospitalization. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the quality of electronic prescription records for routine chronic treatment by analyzing the concordance of the electronic prescription. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Observational, cross-sectional and retrospective study at the General University Hospital of Elche. Hospitalized patients in charge of the Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Urology and Neurosurgery Services in which the responsible doctor requested medication reconciliation by the Pharmacy Service between January 2022 - December 2022 were included. RESULTS: 378 patients, 209 (55.3%) women and 169 (44.7%) men, with a mean age±standard deviation of 71.0±11.6 years and 69.0±11.8 years, respectively. The total percentage of patients with discrepancies in the electronic prescription with respect to the usual chronic treatment was 60.6%, reflecting that only 39.4% of the patients had non-discordant electronic prescriptions. CONCLUSIONS: More than half of hospitalized surgical patients present discrepancies in the medications prescribed in the home electronic prescription, which justifies the importance of treatment reconciliation upon admission carried out by hospital pharmacists.

[Pharmaceutical intervention in duration of antimicrobial treatment at hospital ambit]. / Actuación farmacéutica en el control de la duración del tratamiento con antimicrobianos en el ámbito hospitalario.

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the acceptance of the pharmaceutical intervention in controlling duration of antimicrobial therapy and to evaluate their impact on optimizing the treatment. METHODS: Prospective observational study for two years in a General University Hospital. For the patients record, we followed non critical adult patients with antibiotic treatment. When the duration of antimicrobial treatment not complied with established criteria for each antibiotic and pathology, there was a communication with the physician, at which is recommended to assess the need for continue treatment. The acceptance of pharmaceutical intervention was collected and afterwards we analyzed the impact of this work by antimicrobial consumption and incidence of Clostridium difficile. RESULTS: . In 122 patients the pharmacist made a pharmaceutical intervention due to prolonged antibiotic treatment. The most prevalent antibiotics were ß-lactams, specifically meropenem. The intravenous administration was more frequent. In 77 cases it was decided to recommend the suspension of treatment, we conducted an orally prospective intervention at 70.15 % and the rest of interventions were written. Acceptance was 65.95 % and 65.00%, respectively. During the study period, the DDD of the antimicrobials decreased by 8.89% and expenditure on antimicrobials one 40.12%. The incidence of C. difficile was stable. CONCLUSIONS: . In a hospital, a pharmaceutical counselling program on the duration of antimicrobial therapy is well accepted by the prescriber physician, but it must be improved. The route of information does not affect the degree of acceptance. These actions could involve a reduction of antimicrobial consumption.

[Pharmaceutical care in renal insufficiency inpatients]. / Atención farmacéutica en pacientes ingresados con insuficiencia renal.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To asses the outcomes of posological adjust program in renal impairment inpatients, describe the drugs more usually involved, and determine the degree of acceptance of the pharmaceutical intervention made. MATERIAL AND METHOD: A fifteen months-prospective study, in renal insufficiency inpatients (serum creatinine > 1,4 mg/dL) treated with drugs that needs posological adjustment. The primary outcome was the ratio of adequate dosage of the treatment, according with the glomerular filtration rate. We also evaluated the global acceptation rate, the drugs inadequate prescribed more frequently, phamacokinetic analysis derived from the pharmaceutical intervention and its educative character. RESULTS: 384 patients were identified, and 341 of them presented a glomerular filtration rate between 10-50 ml/min. 2.807 prescribed drugs were reviewed, and 2.052 of them didn%#39;t require posological adjustment in renal insufficiency, 508 prescribed drugs were correctly adjusted. 247 pres - criptions were susceptible of posological adjustment and 164 of them, needed a concrete posological adjustment. We performed 200 posological recommendations, and 131 were accepted. The drugs with a higher number of interventions were enoxaparine, levofloxacin, amoxicillin-clavulanic and digoxin. CONCLUSIONS: The implementation of the pharmaceutical care program was accepted between physicians, being antibiotics the group more susceptible of doing a posological adjustment in most patients with renal impairment.