Do CDSS-based interventions and optional point-of-care testing of renal function prevent potentially inappropriate dosing of antibiotics in elderly patients?
Community pharmacist use of clinical decision support and point-of-care renal testing can help prevent inappropriate antibiotic dosing in elderly patients.
Community pharmacists performed CDSS-based interventions to prevent potentially inappropriate (dosing of) antibiotics in elderly patients with renal impairment. Pharmacists were well able to retrieve information on renal function, using PoCT in a limited number of cases. The intervention rate could be greatly increased by better registration of information on renal function. Performing PoCT seems especially worthwhile in the highest age groups.
Heringa et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
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