Evaluation and Change of Pre-avoid Report Format to Reflect Pharmacists’ Ability / 医薬品情報学

ABSTRACT

<b>Objective: </b>Pharmacist interventions are effective for appropriate medical management.  The Japanese Society of Hospital Pharmacists has recommended the “pre-avoid report” to foster appropriate pharmacotherapy since 1999.  The “pre-avoid report” format consists of two forms “serious report” and “preventive report.”  The number of “preventive reports” has comprised about 90% of “pre-avoid reports.”  However, this format of the “preventive report” since 1999 has shown inadequacy due to changes in pharmacists’ ability.  In the present study, we conducted a re-modification of the “preventive report” format using an assay to create the present “preventive report” format.<br><b>Methods: </b>We retrospectively reviewed the pharmacists’ “preventive report” of the “pre-avoid report” from January 2014 to December 2014 in the Department of Pharmacy, Okayama University Hospital.<br><b>Results: </b>The present format included 101 cases of “others” in the “preventive report” format.  This “others” section consisted of “non-intervention of pharmacotherapy” (51%), “forget to stop pre-operation drugs” (14.7%), and “inadequate treatment (wrong administration day, unnecessary treatment).  These factors were not identified with the present format of the “preventive report.”<br><b>Conclusion: </b>In the present study, we suggested that it is necessary to revise the format of the “preventive report” to reflect.