Table 3.

Drug Therapy Problems and Pharmacist Interventions in Initial 48 h of Admission

Outcome	Study Group; Mean ± SD		p Value*
	Pre-implementation (n = 70)	Post-implementation (n = 67)
No. of DTPs identified per patient	1.0 ± 1.3	2.1 ± 1.4	< 0.001
No. of pharmacist interventions per patient	0.9 ± 1.3	1.5 ± 1.5	0.004
Clinical interventions	0.7 ± 1.0	1.0 ± 1.1	0.12
Compliance interventions	0.2 ± 0.5	0.6 ± 0.8	0.001

^*Independent t test; p values less than 0.05 were deemed significant.