EAHP represents over 29,000 hospital pharmacists across 36 member countries. EAHP represents and develops the hospital pharmacy profession within Europe in order to ensure the continuous improvement of care and outcomes for patients in the hospital setting. This is achieved through science, research, education, practice, as well as sharing best-practice and responsibility with other healthcare professionals.
The EAHP Board, elected for three-year terms, oversees the association’s activities. Comprising directors responsible for core functions, it meets regularly to implement strategic goals. Supported by EAHP staff, the Board controls finances, coordinates congress organization, and ensures compliance with statutes and codes of conduct.
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The first member countries were Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany and The Netherlands in 1972. EAHP has now 36 EAHP members and 2 Associate Members. EAHP is open to countries members of the Council of Europe and since 2022 to organisations representing the interests of hospital pharmacists from outside the Council of Europe (Associate Membership)
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EAHP brings together experts from many areas of hospital pharmacy practice providing and highlighting good local sustainable practices as that can be up-scaled and shared with other countries. The EAHP Working Group on Sustainability has the aim of reducing the environmental burden of the hospital pharmacy services.
The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP), and its 36 member country platforms are creating a Common Training Framework for the hospital pharmacy education in Europe. The goal of this project is to allow the free movement of hospital pharmacists within the European Union.
The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) and the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP) have collaboratively developed the Oath to Society. The Oath to Society is all encompassing and acts as a contract for excellence in providing compassionate patient care, working as part of the healthcare team and advancing the pharmacy profession, and showcasing how clinical and hospital pharmacists work every day
A day created to highlight the importance and to celebrate the work done by hospital pharmacies. This day celebrates all hospital pharmacy teams.
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The European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (EJHP) is the only official journal of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) and is committed to advancing the science, practice and profession of hospital pharmacy. As the premier communication platform for hospital pharmacists worldwide, EJHP is a major source for continuing education as well as updates on advances in the practice and standard of pharmaceutical care for patients.
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Clinical Pharmacy Services
Baptiste Fulbert, Florian Poncelet, Marilyne Legrand, Céline Mongaret, Dominique Hettler
Very frail elderly patients are a particularly high-risk population due to their frequent multi-medication and the risk of associated adverse effects.
Clinical hospital pharmacists play an increasingly important role in patient care.
We developed a program comprising several clinical pharmacy services for very frail elderly hospitalization.
We conducted a 3 month prospective study in short and middle geriatric stay included patients admitted in emergency department aged at least 75 with a Short Emergency Geriatric Assessment (SEGA) frailty score above 11. We performed, as clinical pharmacy services, best possible medication history (BPMH) in the emergency department and medication reconciliation at admission (MRA) in hospital ward and medication review during hospitalization. Medication reconciliation at discharge (MRD) was carried out on a geriatric medicine unit over 2 months. All activities were performed by pharmacy students, two residents and a pharmacist.
120 patients were included. 96 BPMHs were performed : 62 in emergency department and 34 in hospital ward.
MRA was performed for 81 patients (68%), identifying 774 discrepancies of which 19 (3%) were unintentional discrepancies (UD), 6 (32%) involving Digestive Tract and Metabolism drugs. 9 (47%) of these UDs concerned omissions.
During the 163 medication reviews, pharmacist performed 98 pharmaceutical interventions (PIs) for 53 patients, with an acceptance rate of 56%. Most of drugs involved with the acceptance rate was Nervous System drugs (20;36%) and Digestive Tract and Metabolism drugs (16;29%). Among the accepted PIs, 22 (40%) relate to dosage adjustment.
Finally, MRD was performed for 25 (21%) of patients identifying 256 discrepancies, 8 of which (3%) were UDs, mainly involving Digestive Tract and Metabolism drugs (5;63%). 5 (63%) of these UDs concern omissions.
The high number and nature of the discrepancies support the idea that this population is a relevant target for a clinical pharmacy program.
This program could be applied in other hospitals with the hospital pharmacists and provide a better care for these patients.
The development of MRD in geriatric wards and collaboration between hospital pharmacists and primary care professionnals, by a discharge summary to handover the changes between the entry and the exit prescription can complete this study.
