Recording of Clinical Interventions in Pharmacy
August 13, 2012
Under the provisions of the 5th
Community Pharmacy Agreement
(5CPA) Australian pharmacies
began the recording of Clinical
Interventions on 1 July 2012.
As defined in the 5CPA Program
Specific Guidelines ‘A Clinical
Intervention is a professional
activity undertaken by a registered
pharmacist directed towards
improving the quality use of
medicines by patients. It may result
in a recommendation for a change
in the patient’s medication therapy,
means of administration and/or
medication-taking behaviour.’
In January 2012, Dr Michael
Ortiz compared the rates of
clinical interventions recorded in
the PROMISe III Study to the
clinical interventions recorded in
the GuildCare software, with the
results of the study published in
the Australian Pharmacist,
‘Pharmacy Practice Incentives –
increase in clinical interventions in
community pharmacies’ June 2012.
Dr Ortiz presented 12 months of
results at the recent Health
Informatics Society of Australia
(HISA) conference reporting that
the GuildCare pharmacies
recorded over 900,000 clinical
interventions, with a large
majority of CIs (97%) accounting
for the DOCUT categories.
The rates of CI/pharmacy/month
increasing from 11 in July 2011 to
an average of 61 per pharmacy
per month at the end June 2012.
This confirms Dr Ortiz’s
prediction at 6 months, as
pharmacies become more familiar
with the classification system and
with the software they’ll record
more clinical interventions.
See www.guildcare.com.au.
This
week’s contributor
is Roma Cecere,
GM for Patient
Care division of GuildLink.
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