Journal: Critical Care

Article Title: On-ward participation of a hospital pharmacist in a Dutch intensive care unit reduces prescribing errors and related patient harm: an intervention study

doi: 10.1186/cc9278

Figure Lengend Snippet: Type and number of recommendations by intensive care unit hospital pharmacists during whole study period . Recommendations were given during intensive care unit (ICU) patient review meeting. The results are divided into accepted (consensus) and not accepted (no consensus) recommendations. TDM, therapeutic drug monitoring.

Article Snippet: The ICU was equipped with an electronic ICU patient data management system (PDMS) (Metavision ® ; iMDSoft, Sassenheim, The Netherlands).

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Journal: Critical Care

Article Title: On-ward participation of a hospital pharmacist in a Dutch intensive care unit reduces prescribing errors and related patient harm: an intervention study

doi: 10.1186/cc9278

Figure Lengend Snippet: Type, incidence and severity of prescribing errors found by intensive care unit hospital pharmacists during the whole study period . Data for prescribing errors found by intensive care unit hospital pharmacists during the whole study period. The severity was scored according to The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention Taxonomy of Medication Errors (categories B to F). The monitoring error category consists of the following types of prescribing errors: wrong dose according to therapeutic drug monitoring, wrong dose according to laboratory tests, organ function or renal replacement therapy requirements, drug-disease interaction, drug-drug interaction, pharmacologic duplications, unrecognized adverse drug reactions.

Article Snippet: The ICU was equipped with an electronic ICU patient data management system (PDMS) (Metavision ® ; iMDSoft, Sassenheim, The Netherlands).

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Journal: Critical Care

Article Title: On-ward participation of a hospital pharmacist in a Dutch intensive care unit reduces prescribing errors and related patient harm: an intervention study

doi: 10.1186/cc9278

Figure Lengend Snippet: Medication types with most prescribing errors found by intensive care unit hospital pharmacists . Medication types with most prescribing errors found during the whole study period. The results are categorized by prescribing error type. AB, antibiotics; AM/A(R)V, antimycotics and anti(retro)viral medication; AE, antiepileptics; AT, antithrombotics; RM, respiratory medication.

Article Snippet: The ICU was equipped with an electronic ICU patient data management system (PDMS) (Metavision ® ; iMDSoft, Sassenheim, The Netherlands).

Techniques: Retroviral