Clinical pharmacy services and hospital mortality rates.

摘要: We evaluated the associations between clinical pharmacy services and mortality rates in 1029 United States hospitals. A data base was constructed from Medicare Health Care Financing Administration National Clinical Pharmacy Services base. multivariate regression analysis, controlling for severity of illness, employed to determine associations. Four were associated with lower rates: research (p<0.0001), drug information (p=0.043), admission histories (p=0.005), participation on a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) team (p=0.039). The actual number deaths (lower) presence these four 21,125 108 hospitals, 10,463 237 3843 30 CPR 5047 282 This is first study indicate that both centrally based patient-specific are reduced hospital rates. suggests save significant lives our nation's