Objectives: To draft a list of actions and quality indicators for pharmacist care in hospital emergency departments, based on consensus among a panel of experts regarding which actions to prioritize in this setting.
Material And Methods: A panel of experts from the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacy (SEFH) and the Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine (SEMES) evaluated a preliminary list of potential actions and quality of care indicators. The experts used a questionnaire to assess the proposals on the basis of available evidence.
Objective: To compare the occurrence of haemorrhages among the different oral anticoagulants (OAC) and to analyse factors that influence it.
Material And Methods: Single-centre, observational, retrospective study. After studying the total population treated with OAC, patients who were treated with an OAC from July 2015 to December 2015 in the II Sector of the Zaragoza Hospital, who consulted the Emergency Department of the Miguel Servet University Hospital and presented a haemorrhagic event, were analysed.
Objectives: To determine the frequency of medication errors and incident types in a tertiary-care hospital emergency department. To quantify and classify medication errors and identify critical points where measures should be implemented to improve patient safety.
Material And Methods: Prospective direct-observation study to detect errors made in June and July 2016.
Objective: To analyze the role of smart infusion pumps in reducing errors related with the administration of intravenous medications.
Method: Retrospective, observational study analyzing the implementation of a system with smart intravenous infusion pumps (Hospira MedNetTM) and the role of the safety system for the detection of errors during the administration of drugs, sera, and blood. We included infusions administered at the day-care hospitals of hematology, oncology, rheumatology, and oncopediatrics.
Introduction: The objective of the study was to assess home medication data collected at the Emergency Department in a tertiary hospital. It also aimed to identify whether any possible deficiencies in this collection were translated as reconciliation errors on admission, to analyse and classify these data and identify the pharmacological groups involved.
Method: A prospective observational study was carried out which analysed the pharmacotherapeutic data collected at the Emergency Department.