RESUMO
The present study was aimed to document, classify and examine interventions and examine reasons as to why pharmacists initiate changes in drug therapy and the outcomes of interventions, also examine the acceptability of interventions to analyze if intervention study can be a reliable learning process and to identify the areas of weakness in case of ineffective interventions. Interventions were broadly classified into Reactive interventions and Passive interventions. This six months prospective study was conducted at district hospital in Ooty. The scrutinized data were assessed by using Microsoft Excel. A total of 470 interventions were recorded in this study. Out of these 470 interventions, 104 were reactive interventions and 366 were passive interventions. Types of queries [366], types of references and types of enquirers were assessed throughout the study and interventions were classified based on this and recommendations were made on the identified interventions related to dose titration, dosage scheduling and switching of medications from intravenous to per-oral. Out of 92 outcome assessed interventions, the outcomes were beneficial in [91.30%] and had no effect in [8.70%].Outcomes of the interventions were beneficial in 91.30% of the cases where outcomes were recorded. Active involvement of clinical pharmacists in the wards helps physicians in taking better therapeutic decisions which highlights areas where clinical pharmacists could prove their skill and knowledge to achieve better patient outcomes. Also clinical pharmacists could provide valuable information to reduce the complications faced by other health care professionals