For each of these patients, we asked the pharmacist to record brief details of the suspected causative medicines, the corresponding MRH, and whether the MRH was considered to be caused by an ADR, an error, or an adherence problem.
A similar bill was passed in Massachusetts, requiring pharmacists to record substitution of interchangeable biologic products in an interoperable EHR system, if available, and to report such substitutions to the prescriber [ 53].
The unit pharmacist prospectively recorded details of MEs and the total number of drugs prescribed daily during the data collection periods, during the course of his normal chart review.
For each patient, dose intensity (DI) was calculated, by direct examination of pharmacist records and by dividing the total actual dose of each drug by the time needed to deliver it.
In the latter case, the pharmacist will also record the date corresponding to the end of the prescription period in the PER.
When this was taken into account and only patients with a pharmacist history were examined and compared to direct interview, the pharmacist history recorded NHP use in (n = 28, 70%) of patients who reported NHP in the interview giving a kappa of 0.34 (fair agreement).
For one hour twice weekly, an infectious diseases physician and a clinical pharmacist audited medical records of inpatients receiving systemic antimicrobial therapy and made non-binding, written recommendations that were subsequently scored for implementation.
The investigator and the local site pharmacist shall maintain records of the study drug's delivery to the pharmacy, an inventory at the site, the distribution to each participant, and the return to the pharmacy or alternative disposition of unused study drugs.
Changes in prescriptions of analgesics and psychotropic drugs (coded as defined daily dosage-DDD) will be derived from the daily logs of contact nurses and will also be derived from the analysis of pharmacists' electronic patient records for the total study period of 26 weeks.
Pharmacists prospectively recorded the number of errors of prescribing during a 4 week period at an eye hospital in UK.
