Why the study?
Does pharmacist monitoring of QTc interval-prolonging drugs reduce the frequency of QTc interval prolongation in critically ill medical adult patients?
Population
149 consecutive medical intensive care unit adult patients prescribed a QTc interval-prolonging drug at a…
Comparison
Clinical pharmacist on physician team monitoring… vs Standard care group.
Design
Cohort, Assigned on alternating days
Authors
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Pharmacist monitoring was associated with fewer QTc prolongations in ICU patients; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
Does pharmacist monitoring of QTc interval-prolonging drugs reduce the frequency of QTc interval prolongation in critically ill medical adult patients?
Pharmacist monitoring of QTc-prolonging medications using a standardized algorithm in the ICU significantly reduces the incidence of QTc prolongation.
Ng et al. (2008) studied this question.
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