Outpatient clinical pharmacy practice in the face of COVID-19 at a cancer center in New York City.
J Oncol Pharm Pract
; 27(2): 389-394, 2021 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-33459159
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
With the rapid spread of COVID-19 in New York City since early March 2020, innovative measures were needed for clinical pharmacy specialists to provide direct clinical care safely to cancer patients. Allocating the workforce was necessary to meet the surging needs of the inpatient services due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which had the potential to compromise outpatient services. We present here our approach of restructuring clinical pharmacy services and providing direct patient care in outpatient clinics during the pandemic. DATA SOURCES We conducted a retrospective review of electronic clinical documentation involving clinical pharmacy specialist patient encounters in 9 outpatient clinics from March 1, 2020 to May 31, 2020. The analysis of the clinical pharmacy specialist interventions and the impact of the interventions was descriptive. DATASUMMARY:
As hospital services were modified to handle the surge due to COVID-19, select clinical pharmacy specialists were redeployed from the outpatient clinics or research blocks to COVID-19 inpatient teams. During these 3 months, clinical pharmacy specialists were involved in 2535 patient visits from 9 outpatient clinics and contributed a total of 4022 interventions, the majority of which utilized telemedicine. The interventions provided critical clinical pharmacy care during the pandemic and omitted 199 in-person visits for medical care.CONCLUSION:
The swift transition to telemedicine allowed the provision of direct clinical pharmacy services to patients with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Servicio de Farmacia en Hospital
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Instituciones Oncológicas
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Pandemias
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Instituciones de Atención Ambulatoria
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COVID-19
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Neoplasias
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Oncol Pharm Pract
Asunto de la revista:
FARMACIA
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos