Clinical Pharmacist Intervention on Drug-Related Problems among Elderly Patients Admitted to Medical Wards of Northwest Ethiopia Comprehensive Specialized Hospitals: A Multicenter Prospective, Observational Study

Table 6

Interventions, prescriber acceptance rate and status of problems on elderly patients admitted to medical ward of UoGCSH, DTCSH, FHCSH, TGCSH, and DMCSH, Northwest, Ethiopia, 2021.

	Interventions	Number	Percentage
Intervention by other		10	1.2
Interventions by pharmacists	Total intervention provided	855	98.8
At prescriber level 445 (52.0%)	Int. proposed and discussed with prescriber	386	86.7
	Prescriber informed only	59	13.3
At patient level 87 (10.2%)	Patient drug counseling	76	87.4
	Spoken to family/care giver	11	12.6
At drug level 323 (37.8%)	Drug stopped	39	12.1
	New drug started	54	16.7
	Dosage changed	79	24.5
	Drug changed	25	7.7
	Monitored	126	39.0
Intervention acceptance rate (at prescriber level) domain
Int. accepted 377 (84.7%)	Int. accepted and implemented	309	82
	Int. accepted and partially implemented	36	9.5
	Int. accepted but not implemented	32	8.5
Int. not accepted 68(15.3%)	Int. not accepted; no agreement	65	95.6
	Int. not accepted not feasible	3	4.4
Status of the problems (503)
Problem solved		339	67.4
Prob. partially solved		58	11.5
Problem not solved		106	21.1
	Lack of coordination of prescriber	82	77.4
	No possibility to solve problem	6	5.6
	Lack of coordination of patient	18	17