Impact of Physician Knowledge on the Incidence and Prevalence of Patient Admissions

Abstract

This study sought to determine how interventions by medical practitioners affect the quality of patient safety and drug therapy, with particular emphasis on elderly patients with drug-related hospitalization. From the previous literature, some of the adverse events that had been documented to cause drug-related mortality and morbidity among elderly patients include inappropriate prescribing, suboptimal dosages, and medication errors. Therefore, this study employed a randomized controlled trial to find out the degree to which clinical pharmacists’ interventions could prove informative relative to the reduction of morbidity. The target population constituted elderly patients aged 80 and above. From the findings, this study established that fewer hospital visits were reported in the intervention group. It is also notable that the study established a general positive attitude to the new collaboration (among nurses, general practitioners, and hospital-based physicians). In future, there is a need to investigate how demographic characteristics on the parts of clinical pharmacists and patients might affect the outcomes of the pharmacists’ service incorporation into the rest of the healthcare teams.