A 5-year single-centre retrospective study of potential drug interactions in burns inpatients with psychiatric comorbidities.

Introduction: Burns patients with psychiatric comorbidities may be at increased risk of harm from drug interactions. We aimed to identify the most common classes of drug involved, the potential clinical effects and any clinical evidence for their occurrence.

Methods: The International Burn Injury Database was used to identify all admission episodes for patients with a psychiatric comorbidity over a 5-year period at an adult regional burns unit.

Patients' knowledge of new medicines after discharge from hospital: What are the effects of hospital-based discharge counseling and community-based medicines use reviews (MURs)?

Background: Interventions to reduce medicines discontinuity at transitions during and reinforced after discharge are effective. However, few studies have linked hospital-based counseling with onward referral for community pharmacy-based follow-up to support patients' medicines use.

Objective: To determine the effects of targeted hospital pharmacist counseling on discharge or targeted community pharmacy medicines reviews post-discharge on patients' knowledge of newly started medication.