http://www.pharmacypracticenews.com//ViewArticle.aspx?ses=ogst&d=Operations+%26+Management&d_id=53&i=ISSUE%3a+April+2013&i_id=950&a_id=22973
Every evening during a
two-month verification phase, tele-ICU nurses assessed the risk for GI
bleeding for each patient in the 38-bed ICU at one of the system’s
hospitals. The three-week intervention phase that followed involved all
adult ICU beds. On-site nurses and pharmacists recommended 102
conversions from IV to oral PPIs; 86 (84.3%) were accepted.
Discontinuation of SUP was recommended 173 times; prescribers accepted
91 (52.6%) of the recommendations. The cost of SUP treatment decreased
from $1.06 per adjusted patient-day to 77 cents and the projected annual
cost savings from decreased SUP amounted to $78,052.
from Pharmacy Practice News 2013
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