Reports From the Field

Optimizing Inpatient Pharmacotherapy Using a Single Clinical Policy Streamlining Pharmacy Protocols


 

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Conclusion

Consistent with the published literature, pharmacists effectively performed pharmacotherapy interventions in a multitude of practice categories for adult inpatients of an acute care community-teaching hospital using a single, comprehensive clinical policy. Providing these broadly scoped protocols in a singular policy allowed pharmacists to increase the autonomy with which they applied their pharmacotherapy expertise during the course of their routine, prospective care and expanded the established benefit of allowing professionals to work to their fullest extent. Pharmacist protocol intervention was met with a high physician acceptance rate.

Acknowledgment: We thank all the pharmacists at UMCPP for supporting our efforts to refine pharmacy practice for our patients.

Corresponding author: Liza Barbarello Andrews, PharmD, BSPharm, BCPS, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 160 Frelinghuysen Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854, lbarbarello@pharmacy.rutgers.edu.

Financial disclosures: None.

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