Medication Reviews by a Clinical Pharmacist at an Irish University Teaching Hospital.

Pharmacist-led medication reviews in hospitals have shown improvement in patient outcomes. The aim of this study is to describe the prevalence and nature of pharmacist interventions (PIs) following a medication review in an Irish teaching hospital. PIs were recorded over a six-month period in 2015.

Prevalence and predictors of bedrail use in an acute hospital.

Objective: to determine the prevalence and predictors of bedrail use in an acute hospital.

Design And Setting: overnight survey in a University teaching hospital.

Subjects: Three-hundred and twenty-seven beds and patients in 14 wards.

High frequency of potential entrapment gaps in beds in an acute hospital.

Objective: dimensional guidelines for bedrails have been developed to minimise the risk of patient entrapment within the bed. We examined whether bedrails in a large Irish teaching hospital complied with these standards.

Design And Setting: survey of 60 accessible beds in six hospital wards.