Table 3.

Types of problems identified by the critical care pharmacist

Identified problem type	No. of occurrences	%
Nutrition monitoring	49	14
Medication indicated but not prescribed	42	12
Dosage modification required	41	12
Follow-up assessment of aminoglycoside/vancomycin regimen needed	38	11
Identification of systems error	36	10
Drug therapy information requested (MD/RN)	35	10
Potential adverse reaction avoided	25	7
Initial assessment of aminoglycoside/vancomycin regimen needed	19	5
Inappropriate duration of therapy/therapy completed	18	5
Inappropriate route/method of administration used	16	5
Monitoring modification required	10	3
Adverse drug reaction identified	4	1
Inappropriate indication	3	0.9
Therapeutic duplication	3	0.9
Nonformulary agent changed to formulary agent	3	0.9
Significant drug interaction identified	3	0.9
Patient allergy to prescribed drug	2	0.6
Nonformulary medication prescribed	1	0.2
Other problem (specify)		0.9
Intubation	1
Noncompliance	1
Antibiotic change	1
Total	348