Table 6.
Importance of interventions as rated by pharmacist
| Rating | Importance | Number | Percentage | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prevented Mortality | 0 | 0.0% | Avoided administration of a medication listed as an allergy with an anaphylactic reaction in medical record. |
| 2 | Prevented Serious Morbidity | 273 | 29.2% | Held a medication in response to supratherapeutic drug levels, ie, digoxin, theophylline, warfarin, etc. |
| 3 | Prevented Potential ADE or Standard of Practice | 626 | 67.7% | Lowered warfarin dose empirically in response to addition of amiodarone.Added ACEI therapy to patient with both diabetes and hypertension. |
| 4 | Cost or Product Selection | 27 | 2.9% | Switch PPI therapy from esomeprazole to pantoprazole per approved therapeutic interchange. Adherence to an established outpatient medication formulary. |
| Not Rated | 1 | 0.1% | (Inadvertently not rated) | |
| Total | 927 | 100.0% |