Table 4.

Physicians' acceptance of pharmaceutical care recommendations

Parameter	Intervention group N (%)	Control group N (%)
Number of DRPs during hospitalisation	545	517
Number of recommendations submitted to physician*	358 (65.7)	NA
Number of recommendations accepted by physicians	324 (90.5) †	NA
Number of implemented recommendations	208 (64.2) ‡	NA
Number of DRPs corrected by physicians/nurses without pharmacist intervention	0	75 (14.5)
Number of recommendations at patient level	113 (20.7)	NA

*The rest of the recommendations were not submitted as the patient was discharged early or the physician was not available or were only at patient level.

†Percentage of submitted.

‡Percentage of accepted.

DRP, drug-related problem; NA, not available.