Altyar Ahmed Essam, Sadoun Samaher Abdullah, Alradadi Rahaf Saad, Aljohani Sarah Sultan
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Hosp Pharm. 2020 Oct;55(5):306-313. doi: 10.1177/0018578719844707. Epub 2019 Apr 25.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the prescription and transcription processes in hospital settings in Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia. A customized version of the original American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) survey was distributed to a total of 26 hospitals in Jeddah city that fits our criteria starting from December 2017. Hospitals' names were adopted from the Ministry of Health and Jeddah Municipality websites. All questionnaires were collected in June 2018. After that, they were classified according to the type of care provided by the hospital, size, ownership, teaching affiliation, and accreditation. Data were entered electronically using Google forms, and then Microsoft Excel was used to conduct descriptive statistics. The survey had a response rate of 57%. A strict formulary system was adopted in 53.3% of hospitals, and clinical practice guidelines were used to optimize medication use in 86.7% of hospitals. Pharmacists do not have the authority to write medication orders in about 86.7% of hospitals and only 40.0% of hospitals have pharmacists routinely assigned to patient care units. However, Pharmacists actively provided consultation, mostly in drug information (80.0%). Computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) is used to receive medication orders electronically in 80.0% of hospitals, and electronic health record (EHR) is used in about 53.3% of hospitals and 50.0% of those hospitals have pharmacists who document their clinical intervention in EHR. Survey results suggest that pharmacists in hospital settings have not yet been positioned to improve the prescribing and transcribing components of the medication-use process.
本研究的目的是评估沙特阿拉伯吉达市医院环境中的处方和转录流程。从2017年12月开始,向吉达市符合我们标准的26家医院分发了美国卫生系统药师协会(ASHP)原始调查问卷的定制版本。医院名称取自卫生部和吉达市市政当局网站。所有问卷于2018年6月收集。之后,根据医院提供的护理类型、规模、所有权、教学附属关系和认证进行分类。数据使用谷歌表单以电子方式录入,然后使用Microsoft Excel进行描述性统计。该调查的回复率为57%。53.3%的医院采用了严格的处方集系统,86.7%的医院使用临床实践指南来优化药物使用。在约86.7%的医院中,药剂师没有开具用药医嘱的权限,只有40.0%的医院有药剂师定期被分配到患者护理单元。然而,药剂师积极提供咨询,主要是药物信息方面(80.0%)。80.0%的医院使用计算机化医嘱录入(CPOE)以电子方式接收用药医嘱,约53.3%的医院使用电子健康记录(EHR),其中50.0%的医院有药剂师在EHR中记录他们的临床干预。调查结果表明,医院环境中的药剂师尚未处于能够改善用药过程中处方和转录环节的位置。