Open AccessEducational intervention to improve appropriate digoxin therapeutic drug monitoring: a quasi-experimental study
Author(s) -
Şeyma Öncü,
Anil Baskurt,
Bihter Şentürk,
Özgür Aslan,
Tuncay Küme,
Reyhan Uçku,
Ayşe Gelal
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
european journal of hospital pharmacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2047-9964
pISSN - 2047-9956
DOI - 10.1136/ejhpharm-2019-002078
Subject(s) - medicine , digoxin , test (biology) , emergency medicine , data collection , blood test , blood collection , heart failure , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , biology
Our previous retrospecive study evaluating the appropriateness of serum digoxin concentration (SDC) measurements revealed errors in the timing of blood specimen collection in 98% of the tests. The aim of this study is to evaluate the appropriateness of the SDC measurements and the factors involved in inappropriate test-ordering, after training health personnel in digoxin therapeutic drug monitoring.