Objective: It has been shown that pharmacists, as members of multidisciplinary patient care teams, can decrease the number of medicine errors. The objective of the present study was to analyse pharmaceutical interventions (PI) in emergency departments, to assess their clinical relevance, the cost-effectiveness and the potential economic benefits.
Methods: We designed a 5-month observational prospective study of PI in the emergency department (ED) of a 330-bed hospital in Spain.