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The Impact of Clinical Pharmacist Implemented Protocol on Albumin Utilization and Cost in an Intensive Care Unit in Egypt.
Ibrahim, Dina Mohamed; Shawki, May Ahmed; Solayman, Mohamed Hassan; Sabri, Nagwa Ali.
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  • Ibrahim DM; Clinical Pharmacy Department, New Cairo Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
  • Shawki MA; Clinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
  • Solayman MH; Clinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
  • Sabri NA; Clinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Front Pharmacol ; 13: 825048, 2022.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35370698
Introduction: Albumin is an expensive non-blood plasma substitutes with limited availability that has been reported to be inappropriately used in healthcare settings. Hence, interventions are recommended to control its misuse. Objective: To evaluate the impact of clinical pharmacist implemented dispensing protocol on optimization of albumin use in an intensive care unit (ICU). Design: A retrospective prospective 3-phase interventional study was conducted in an ICU in a tertiary Egyptian hospital over a period of 2 years. Methods: The study included three phases; a preparation phase where a local albumin dispensing protocol and a restriction dispensing form were prepared by clinical pharmacists and was approved by the local Drugs and Therapeutics Committee, a retrospective pre-implementation phase in which the medical records of all ICU patients receiving albumin were evaluated for appropriateness of albumin use according to the developed protocol, and a prospective implementation phase where the dispensing protocol and restriction dispensing form were applied. The pattern of albumin consumption and cost were recorded and compared between the retrospective and prospective phases. Results: In the retrospective phase, 190 ICU patients received albumin of whom 83.6% was considered inappropriate indications for albumin compared to only 44 patients in the prospective phase of whom 16% was considered inappropriate (p-value <0.001). Clinical pharmacists' interventions significantly decreased the inappropriate albumin consumption from 4.7 vials/patient in the retrospective phase to 2.7 vials/patient in the prospective phase (p-value <0.001) with a total cost savings of 313,900 Egyptian Pounds (19,930 US Dollars). Conclusion: The current study showed that clinical pharmacists' interventions led to a significant control on albumin use and consequently reduced the cost associated with its consumption.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Guideline / Health_economic_evaluation Idioma: En Revista: Front Pharmacol Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Egipto Pais de publicación: Suiza

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Guideline / Health_economic_evaluation Idioma: En Revista: Front Pharmacol Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Egipto Pais de publicación: Suiza