Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of clinical pharmacists intervening in outpatient off-label uses. METHODS To retrospective analyze the outpatient off-label uses in Feb. 2011, choose the top 10 medicines that off-label use to system review and install rational drug use software. The software can give a warning window to remind the doctors when they prescribe off-label use. Analyze the outpatient off-label uses in Feb. 2014 and compare to the off-label uses before the intervention. RESULTS All of the off-label uses decrease compared to the off-label use before the intervening besides one medicine was not use any more. CONCLUSION It react to the phenomenon of off-label uses with system assessing and soft reminding by clinical pharmacists.