Inclusion Criteria
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Study design |
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Population |
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Setting |
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Intervention |
The intervention involved a pharmacist, pregraduate pharmacist, or pharmacy technician
The pharmacist had a proactive role, meaning for all interventions, patients received an active pharmacist intervention (e.g., excluding reactively responding to physician questions during ward rounds)
Interventions were performed before, during, or up to 30 days after hospitalization. The postdischarge time limit was chosen to ensure connection to transitional care
The intervention was designed to improve transitional care and aimed at medication-related issues
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Comparison |
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Clinical outcomes |
At least 1 of the following outcomes was measured: mortality, readmissions, emergency department visits, and adverse drug events
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Exclusion Criteria
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Participant |
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Setting |
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Intervention |
Interventions solely targeted at specific drugs (e.g., improving adherence of statins)
Interventions not aimed at transitional care (e.g., interventions in outpatient clinics without transmission of relevant information from earlier health care provider encounters in the hospital or interventions on heart failure guideline adherence)
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