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Published on: October 12, 2012
Anticoagulant stewardship: an opportunity for community pharmacy
Michael Wilcock1, Liam Bastian1
1Pharmacy Department, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Cornwall TR1 3LJ, United Kingdom.
Objectives:
This study explored how community pharmacies in the English National Health Service responded to a referral from one hospital in the south west of England for a discharge medicines service for patients on oral anticoagulants.
Methods:
Analysis of PharmOutcomes™ for a 12-month period commencing 1 April 2023. The download was interrogated for relevant entries for patients discharged on apixaban, dabigatran, edoxaban, rivaroxaban, or warfarin.
Key Findings:
Approximately one-third of community pharmacies recorded entries on PharmOutcomes™ that point to their involvement in monitoring of appropriate prescribing and active counselling of patients about their anticoagulants at transition of care.
Conclusions:
There is increased scope for community pharmacists to be involved more formally in anticoagulant stewardship activities.
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