Impact of college of pharmacy-based educational services within the hospital

DICP : the Annals of Pharmacotherapy
B A Mueller, S R Abel

Abstract

Using a pharmacy intervention form, we measured the influence that university-based pharmacy educational personnel had on the pharmacy department's drug costs and on patient charges over a three-month period. A total of 278 interventions were made; 88.8 percent were implemented. Implemented interventions decreased drug costs by $1661.99 and decreased patient charges by $5938.37. The average implemented intervention decreased drug cost by $6.73 and patient cost by $24.04. Regardless of economic benefits, 218 of the 247 implemented interventions were considered to have positive clinical effects on patient care. Educational personnel were responsible for generating $6028.27 of fee revenues to the pharmacy department through generation of pharmacokinetic drug dosing consults. We conclude that the educational programs provided by the pharmacy department through affiliation with a college of pharmacy directly contributed $7690.26 to the pharmacy department in the form of cost-avoided dollars and revenue generation over a three-month period. The provision of educational services by a hospital pharmacy department results in financial rewards as well as other benefits that have been previously described.

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