2009 Midyear Clinical Meeting
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Emergency Department Pharmacists Improve Patient Safety: Results of a Multicenter Study
Track:
Educational Sessions (CE)
Program Code: 269-L05
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
Location:
3401 - Lido
MEETING PLANNING ASSOCIATE:
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Rita Shane,
PharmD, FCSHP, Director, Pharmacy Services,
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Rita Shane, Pharm.D., FASHP, FCSHP is Director, Pharmacy Services at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a 950 bed acute, tertiary care, teaching institution and Assistant Dean, Clinical Pharmacy Services, at UCSF School of Pharmacy. She is responsible for over 300 staff. Dr. Shanes big hairy audacious goal is to ensure that wherever patients need care, there is a demand for pharmacists to ensure optimal medication management. Dr. Shane is the recipient of the 2007 CSHP Pharmacist of the Year and the 2007 Distinguished Service Award, ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers. She was the 2005 recipient of the ASHP Distinguished Leadership Award and the 1995 recipient of the John Webb Visiting Professorship on management excellence. Dr. Shane is a co-investigator of 2 studies in collaboration with the UCSF School of Pharmacy to demonstrate the safety of allowing technicians to check technician filled medication cassettes in hospitals leading to the approval of regulation in California in 2007. Dr. Shane was co-investigator of a 2000 National Patient Safety Foundation Award to study The Impact of Dedicated Medication Nurses Upon the Rate of Medication Administration Errors: A Randomized, Controlled Trial" published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. She recently served as the U.S. facilitator at the Global Conference on the Future of Hospital Pharmacy held at the 68th FIP Congress and was responsible for reviewing the international literature on the subject of medication administration.. Dr. Shane is also one of the investigators of a multicenter study to evaluate medications errors recovered by ED pharmacists.
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PRESENTER(S):
Mr. William Churchill, MS, RPh, Director, Pharmacy Services, Brigham & Women's Hospital
John Patka,
PharmD, BCPS, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist,
Grady Health System
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John Patka is a Clinical Pharmacist Specialist in emergency medicine at Grady Health System in Atlanta, GA and is the residency director for their PGY-2 program in emergency medicine. Dr Patka is a reviewer for The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, contributing author for Challenger's Emergency Medicine LLSA (Lifelong Learning and Self Assessment), and serves as an adjunct faculty member for Mercer University's school of Pharmacy.
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Rita Shane,
PharmD, FCSHP, Director, Pharmacy Services,
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Rita Shane, Pharm.D., FASHP, FCSHP is Director, Pharmacy Services at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a 950 bed acute, tertiary care, teaching institution and Assistant Dean, Clinical Pharmacy Services, at UCSF School of Pharmacy. She is responsible for over 300 staff. Dr. Shanes big hairy audacious goal is to ensure that wherever patients need care, there is a demand for pharmacists to ensure optimal medication management. Dr. Shane is the recipient of the 2007 CSHP Pharmacist of the Year and the 2007 Distinguished Service Award, ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers. She was the 2005 recipient of the ASHP Distinguished Leadership Award and the 1995 recipient of the John Webb Visiting Professorship on management excellence. Dr. Shane is a co-investigator of 2 studies in collaboration with the UCSF School of Pharmacy to demonstrate the safety of allowing technicians to check technician filled medication cassettes in hospitals leading to the approval of regulation in California in 2007. Dr. Shane was co-investigator of a 2000 National Patient Safety Foundation Award to study The Impact of Dedicated Medication Nurses Upon the Rate of Medication Administration Errors: A Randomized, Controlled Trial" published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. She recently served as the U.S. facilitator at the Global Conference on the Future of Hospital Pharmacy held at the 68th FIP Congress and was responsible for reviewing the international literature on the subject of medication administration.. Dr. Shane is also one of the investigators of a multicenter study to evaluate medications errors recovered by ED pharmacists.
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Aaron Steffenhagen,
PharmD, BCPS, Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Medicine,
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
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Completed PharmD education at the University of Wisconsin in 2001 along with an acute care pharmacy practice residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Then returned to the University of Wisconsin Hospital as a decentral clinical pharmacist in Neurology. This was transitioned to the emeregency department with the development of clinical pharmacy services in this area which is now the current focus and practice area.
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Description
Planned in cooperation with the ASHP Research & Education Foundation
ACPE Activity #204-000-09-269-L05
1.0 Contact Hour / Knowledge-based
Educational Content: Level 2
Presenters: Rita Shane,PharmD, FCSHP, FASHP, Director, Pharmacy Services, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; and Assistant Dean, Clinical Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Pharmacy, San Francisco
John Patka, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Grady Health System, Atlanta, GA
William W. Churchill, MS, RPh, Director of Pharmacy Services, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Aaron Steffenhagen, PharmD, BCPS, Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison
Learning Objectives:
- Classify MEs recovered by the ED pharmacist according to the type, severity and nature of the errors intercepted.
- Describe the role of observation methodology in detection of medication errors.
- Determine the incidence and type of medication errors (MEs) and adverse drug events (ADEs) recovered by emergency department (ED) pharmacists.
