The Use of a Decision Support System in Swedish Pharmacies to Identify Potential Drug-Related Problems-Effects of a National Intervention Focused on Reviewing Elderly Patients' Prescriptions

Pharmacy : Journal of Pharmacy, Education and Practice
Tora HammarLisa Ericson

Abstract

In pharmacies in Sweden, a clinical decision support system called Electronic Expert Support (EES) is available to analyse patients' prescriptions for potential drug-related problems. A nationwide intervention was performed in 2018 among all Swedish pharmacy chains to increase the use of EES among patients 75 years or older. The aim of this research was to study the use of EES in connection with the national intervention in order to describe any effects of the intervention, to understand how pharmacists use EES and to identify any barriers and facilitators for the use of EES by pharmacists for elderly patients. Data on the number and categories of EES analyses, alerts, resolved alerts and active pharmacies was provided by the Swedish eHealth Agency. The effects of the intervention were analysed using interrupted time series regression. A web-based questionnaire comprising 20 questions was sent to 1500 pharmacists randomly selected from all pharmacies in Sweden. The study shows that pharmacists use and appreciate EES and that the national intervention had a clear effect during the week of the intervention and seems to have contributed to a faster increase in pharmacists' use of EES during the year to follow. The study also ident...Continue Reading

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