Pharmacist elicited medication histories in the Emergency Department: Identifying patient groups at risk of medication misadventure

Pharmacy Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 162-168

  Ajdukovic, Maja ^a   Crook, Meredith ^a   Angley, Christopher ^b   Stupans, Ieva ^a   Soulsby, Natalie ^a   Doecke, Christopher ^a   Anderson, Barbara ^a   Angley, Manya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Communication barriers; Medical records; Medication errors; Pharmaceutical services

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CODEINE; DIURETIC AGENT; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; LAXATIVE; NITRATE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG USE; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERPRETER SERVICE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHARMACIST; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 37349090744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18863655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4321/S1886-36552007000400004     Document Type: Article

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