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Development and reliability testing of the clinical pharmacist recommendation taxonomy.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  17461698     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the reliability of a newly developed taxonomy--the Clinical Pharmacist Recommendation (CPR) taxonomy--to classify clinical pharmacy interventions. DESIGN: The CPR taxonomy was developed and refined in three phases. In each phase, reviewers independently reviewed recommendations made by a clinical pharmacist-physician team and categorized them into mutually exclusive categories: priority, problem, and response. Interrater reliability was assessed for all categories during each development phase. SETTING: Primary care clinics of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. PATIENTS: Fifty-three patients enrolled in the Veterans Affairs Enhanced Pharmacy Outpatient Clinic (EPOC) trial. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Interrater reliability was assessed using the kappa statistic. A total of 423 recommendations were evaluated during the three testing phases. In the final testing phase, agreement was moderate for pharmacotherapy problem subcategories (kappa = 0.57), substantial for pharmacotherapy problem primary categories (kappa = 0.64), and almost perfect for response categories (kappa = 0.85). Taxonomy completion time/patient averaged 4.6 minutes (range 1-11 min). CONCLUSION: The CPR taxonomy provides a reliable method to systematically evaluate clinical pharmacy recommendations based on the therapeutic problem identified and specific action recommended to resolve the problem.
Authors:
Angela B Hoth; Barry L Carter; Jose Ness; Anjan Bhattacharyya; Ronald I Shorr; Gary E Rosenthal; Peter J Kaboli
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Evaluation Studies; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Pharmacotherapy     Volume:  27     ISSN:  0277-0008     ISO Abbreviation:  Pharmacotherapy     Publication Date:  2007 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2007-04-27     Completed Date:  2007-06-26     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8111305     Medline TA:  Pharmacotherapy     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  639-46     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, Veterans Affairs Iowa City Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa 52246, USA. Angela.Hoth@med.va.gov
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Aged
Drug Therapy / adverse effects,  classification
Female
Hospitals, Veterans
Humans
Male
Pharmacists*
Pharmacy Service, Hospital / classification*,  methods,  organization & administration*,  standards
Primary Health Care
Professional Role*
Quality Assurance, Health Care / methods*
Reproducibility of Results
United States

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