Patient care round led by pharmacist in Emergency Department – Innovative experience

Background: As part of improving the service in ED, we conduct Pharmacist-led Pharmacy round (PLPR) led by Pharmacist to ensure best patient care is provided by pharmacist. Objective: No such experience was reported in the literature up to our knowledge so we decided to describe our experience, in the successful establishment of PLPR in ED and to identify whether implementing a pharmacy based round, provide better patients care in terms of finding more drug related problems and providing educations to all clinical pharmacists. Methods: The PLPR started daily at 11 am by brief meeting to discuss any pharmacy related issue then the PRPR team start rounding according to a planned schedule. The PLPR often involves ED pharmacists of different levels of experience the ED pharmacy specialist, clinical pharmacists who have reviewed the patient's case, pharmacy fellows and medical and pharmacy students. During the round, the pharmacist assigned for the area present each case using the Care Plan Form (CPF) to revie...