Computer-Assisted Retrospective Clinical Activities Statistics (CARCAS) Program
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4212/cjhp.v46i1.2462Keywords:
CARCAS, clinical, computer, workload statistics, clinique, ordinateur, statistiques sur la charge de travailAbstract
ABSTRACT
Clinical pharmacy services have been demonstrated to have a positive impact on patient care in the hospital setting. Accurate and complete documentation of interventions aimed at improving drug use is essential to assess workload characteristics, determine the impact of pharmacist activities, justify current programs and predict future clinical staffing requirements.
The need for an improved system of collecting and analyzing clinical workload statistics led to the development of a Computer-Assisted Retrospective Clinical Activities Statistics (CARCAS) Program in our department. Using a pre-defined clinical activity coding system, pharmacist activities were efficiently documented on a daily basis using an existing distributional computer system. Training requirements and data entry time were minimal. The CARCAS Program appeared to capture more clinical pharmacist activities than the earlier manual system.
The flexibility of the CARCAS Program should permit adaptation to other hospitals with similar computer systems regardless of the nature of their clinical programs.
RÉSUMÉ
On a démontré que les services de pharmacie clinique ont une incidence positive sur les soins prodigués aux malades, en milieu hospitalier. Il est essentiel de rassembler une documentation exacte et complète sur les interventions qui visent à améliorer la pharmacothérapie pour mieux établir les particularités de la charge de travail, préciser l'impact des activités du pharmacien, justifier les programmes existants et prévoir les besoins ultérieurs de dotation en clinique.
La recherche d'un meilleur système de collecte et d'analyse des données sur la charge de travail clinique a débouché sur la création d'un programme statistique d'analyse rétrospective des activités cliniques assistée par ordinateur (CARCAS - Computer-Assisted Retrospective
Clinicat Activities Statistics). Grâce à une codification des activités cliniques, on est parvenu à bien documenter les tâches quotidiennes du pharmacien avec le système informatisé de distribution déjà existant. L'utilisation du programme n'exige qu'une formation rudimentaire et il faut peu de temps pour entrer des données. Le programme CARCAS semble relever plus d'activités de pharmacie clinique que le système manuel antérieur.
La souplesse du programme devrait en permettre l'adaptation à d'autres hôpitaux dotés d'un système informatique similaire, quelle que soit la nature des programmes cliniques.
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