LIU Dan 1,2 , HUANG Liang 1,2 , ZHANG Chuan 1,2 , ZENG Linan 1,2 , LI Jialian 1,2,3 , ZHANG Yang 1,2,4 , SONG Haoxin 1,2,3 , ZHANG Lingli 1,2
  • 1. Department of Pharmacy/Evidence-Based Pharmacy Center, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Sichuan University, the Ministry of Education, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
  • 3. West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
  • 4. West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
ZHANG Lingli, Email: zhanglingli@scu.edu.cn
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ObjectiveTo systematically review the effects of the participation of pharmacists in clinical pathways.MethodsPubMed, The Cochrane Library, EMbase, CBM, CNKI, WanFang Data and VIP databases were electronically searched to collect clinical studies about the participation of pharmacists in clinical pathways from inception to November 2017. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data and assessed the risk of bias of the included studies, then, a descriptive analysis was performed.ResultsA total of 23 studies involving 3 667 participants were included. The key link in which the pharmacists participated in clinical pathways was the implementation of clinical pathways. The participation of pharmacists in clinical pathways could improve the patients’ clinical outcomes, shorten the length of hospital stay, reduce the cost of treatment, improve patient satisfaction and compliance, and promote the rational use of drugs.ConclusionThe participation of pharmacists in clinical pathways could have a positive effect. Due to limited quality and quantity of the included studies, more high quality studies are required to verify the above conclusion.

Citation: LIU Dan, HUANG Liang, ZHANG Chuan, ZENG Linan, LI Jialian, ZHANG Yang, SONG Haoxin, ZHANG Lingli. The participation of pharmacists in clinical pathways: a systematic review. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2018, 18(3): 294-299. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201710051 Copy

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