The effects of @entity146 pharmacy services on clinical outcomes of acute care @entity146 inpatients were studied. @entity1 recruited at a state @entity146 facility during phase 1 (October 1996-March 1997) served as the control group and received only traditional centralized pharmaceutical services and physician-requested @entity146 pharmacotherapy consultations. @entity1 recruited during phase 2 (May-December 1997) received intensive @entity146 pharmacy services and served as the experimental group. Pharmaceutical services during phase 2 included attending treatment team meetings, performing baseline assessments and weekly reviews, providing pharmacotherapy recommendations, obtaining medication histories, reviewing drug administration records daily, monitoring for adverse drug reactions, conducting medication education classes, and counseling @entity1 before discharge. Outcome variables included clinical response determined with objective rating scales, cost of care, length of stay, adverse events, rate of acceptance of recommendations, @entity1 compliance with the first clinic visit scheduled after discharge, quality of life, and @entity1 satisfaction. Data were analyzed for 48 @entity1 in the control group and 45 @entity1 in the experimental group. There were no significant differences between the two groups with respect to age, sex, duration of illness, number of hospitalizations, and number of months since the last hospitalization. @entity1 in the experimental group showed significant improvements in clinical response and drug-induced @entity21 compared with the controls and were highly satisfied with the pharmaceutical services they received. Medication costs did not differ significantly, and length of stay was about 29 days for each group. The provision of clinical pharmacy services provided to inpatients in an acute care @entity146 facility was associated with improvements in rating-scale scores for clinical response and for drug-induced @entity21 .

Outcomes assessment of clinical pharmacy services in a XXXX inpatient setting.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients', 'patient'] @entity21 :: ('MESH:D001480', 'Disease') :: ['extrapyramidal symptoms'] @entity146 :: ('MESH:D001523', 'Disease') :: ['psychiatric']
@entity146 :: (MESH:D001523,Disease) :: ['psychiatric']
