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Evaluation of the Impact of a Collaboration Between Hospital and Community Pharmacists at Hospital Discharge
Sponsor: Pharmacie des Hopitaux de l'Est Lemanique
Summary
The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of an enhanced collaboration between a hospital pharmacist and a community pharmacist during hospital discharge. For patients taking multiple medications, hospitalization often involves numerous changes to their treatment regimen. For community pharmacies, discharge prescriptions are often complex, and they sometimes lack the information that pharmacists need to deliver the treatment as safely as possible. As a result, there is a risk of medication errors, and a risk for patients. We aim to evaluate the benefits of this collaboration for adult patients admitted to the internal medicine ward of a regional hospital who are taking seven or more drugs and are being discharged to home. The main question it aims to answer is : Does the enhanced collaboration reduce the number of drug-related problems encountered by community pharmacists with discharge prescriptions ? Researchers will compare patients when a hospital pharmacist is involved during the discharge process and when he or she is not involved, which corresponds to normal care. The hospital pharmacist will not perform the intervention directly on the patient, but only with the community pharmacy. Once they agree to participate in the study, patients will only have to go to their usual community pharmacy after discharge and accept that the hospital transmits medical information to their usual pharmacy.
Official title: Enhanced Collaboration Between Hospital and Community Pharmacists to Improve the Hospital Discharge Process
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
150
Start Date
2025-09-01
Completion Date
2026-07-01
Last Updated
2025-09-15
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Support of the hospital pharmacist for the medication management at hospital discharge
1\) The hospital pharmacist calls the community pharmacy the day before discharge to order unusual or specific medications 2) The day of discharge, the hospital pharmacist performs a medication reconciliation in collaboration with the hospital physician 3) Once completed, the discharge prescription is sent to the community pharmacy before the patient is discharged. 4) The hospital pharmacist calls the community pharmacy to provide additional information about the patient and the prescription and to answer any questions. Additional information will help the community pharmacist to understand the prescription : administrative data, clinical data, medication-related information, patient follow-up and patient concerns.
Locations (1)
Hôpital Riviera-Chablais, Vaud-Valais
Rennaz, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland