Evaluation of emergency medicine pharmacist review and its impact on hospital length of stay of older medical patients

This research evaluated the contribution of pharmacists in the emergency department and found that over 80% of pharmacist recommendations to initiate, cease, withhold, or change medication doses were adopted by emergency clinicians. While this retrospective study found no statistically significant difference in length of stay between older persons reviewed by the pharmacist and those who were not, exploration of staff perceptions highlighted the high value clinicians place on pharmacist review of patients presenting to the emergency department.