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. 2011 Apr 11;75(3):42.
doi: 10.5688/ajpe75342.

Clinical pharmacy consultations provided by American and Kenyan pharmacy students during an acute care advanced pharmacy practice experience

Sonak D Pastakia  1 , William R Vincent 3rd, Imran Manji, Evelyn Kamau, Ellen M Schellhase
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Clinical pharmacy consultations provided by American and Kenyan pharmacy students during an acute care advanced pharmacy practice experience

Sonak D Pastakia et al. Am J Pharm Educ. .

Abstract

Objective: To compare the clinical consultations provided by American and Kenyan pharmacy students in an acute care setting in a developing country.

Methods: The documented pharmacy consultation recommendations made by American and Kenyan pharmacy students during patient care rounds on an advanced pharmacy practice experience at a referral hospital in Kenya were reviewed and classified according to type of intervention and therapeutic area.

Results: The Kenyan students documented more interventions than American students (16.7 vs. 12.0 interventions/day) and provided significantly more consultations regarding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and antibiotics. The top area of consultations provided by American students was cardiovascular diseases.

Conclusions: American and Kenyan pharmacy students successfully providing clinical pharmacy consultations in a resource-constrained, acute-care practice setting suggests an important role for pharmacy students in the reconciliation of prescriber orders with medication administration records and in providing drug information.

Keywords: Kenya; advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE); clinical interventions; international pharmacy.

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