Patient prioritisation in current practice of Brazilian hospital clinical pharmacist: a cross-sectional survey
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Objectives: To survey the insertion of patient prioritisation in the current practice of clinical pharmacists at Brazilian hospitals and describe the applicability of patient prioritisation criteria for clinical pharmacy developed in a Delphi study with clinical pharmacists. Methods: This was a cross-sectional, online survey. The authors developed the survey questionnaire based on studies published in the literature. Hospital pharmacists from all over Brazil were invited to participate in the survey. The authors adopted the snowball sampling strategy to replicate the questionnaire on social networks. Results: A total of 149 pharmacists agreed to participate in the survey. In clinical practice, 94 (63.1%) participants used prioritisation criteria to select patients for clinical pharmacy care, and 55 (36.9%) employed prioritisation using an interface with a computerised hospital system. Eighty-nine (74.2%) of the 120 evaluations of criteria/sub criteria assessed regarding their applicability in clinical practice obtained agreement above 70%. Conclusions: Patient prioritisation for clinical pharmacy services is frequently used in the clinical practice of pharmacists participating in the survey. Prioritization of patients for clinical pharmacy services integrated with the hospital’s computerized system is a facilitator for incorporating prioritization into care practice. Information availability and accessible data collection are relevance for criterion be used for patient prioritisation for clinical pharmacy.
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