Position paper on critical care pharmacy services
- 1 November 2000
- journal article
- guideline
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Critical Care Medicine
- Vol. 28 (11), 3746-3750
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003246-200011000-00037
Abstract
The goal of the Task Force on Critical Care Pharmacy Services was to identify and describe the scope of practice that characterizes the critical care pharmacist and critical care pharmacy services. Specifically, the aims were to define the level of clinical practice and specialized skills characterizing the critical care pharmacist as clinician, educator, researcher, and manager; and to recommend fundamental, desirable, and optimal pharmacy services and personnel requirements for the provision of pharmaceutical care to critically ill patients. Hospitals having comprehensive resources as well as those with more limited resources were considered. Consensus opinion of critical care pharmacists from institutions of various sizes providing critical care services within several types of pharmacy practice models was obtained, including community-based and academic practice settings. Existing guidelines and literature describing pharmacy practice and medication use processes were reviewed and adapted for the critical care setting. By combining the strengths and expertise of critical care pharmacy specialists with existing supporting literature, these recommendations define the level of clinical practice and specialized skills that characterize the critical care pharmacist as clinician, educator, researcher, and manager. This Position Paper recommends fundamental, desirable, and optimal pharmacy services as well as personnel requirements for the provision of pharmaceutical care to critically ill patients.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
- Pharmacist Participation on Physician Rounds and Adverse Drug Events in the Intensive Care UnitJAMA, 1999
- Clinical Pharmacy Services and Hospital Mortality RatesPharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, 1999
- Critical care services and personnelCritical Care Medicine, 1999
- Health Care Professional Staffing, Hospital Characteristics, and Hospital Mortality RatesPharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, 1999
- Pharmaceutical Care in Medical Progressive Care PatientsAnnals of Pharmacotherapy, 1998
- Pharmacist influence on economic and morbidity outcomes in a tertiary care teaching hospital.American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 1997
- Survey results from academic health center intensive care units: considerations for departments of pharmacyClinical Therapeutics, 1995
- Impact of a clinical pharmacist in a multidisciplinary intensive care unitCritical Care Medicine, 1994
- The critical care pharmacistCritical Care Medicine, 1994
- Evaluation of the Contribution of Clinical Pharmacists: Inpatient Care and Cost ReductionDrug Intelligence & Clinical Pharmacy, 1988