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Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics ›› 2024, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (12): 1322-1328.doi: 10.12092/j.issn.1009-2501.2024.12.001

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Study on the intervention and evaluation for the abnormal results of tacrolimus therapeutic drug monitoring 

WANG Xuebin1,2,3, GAO Lihong2, ZHANG Lingpeng2, YANG Yunyun2, LIU Hongxia1, WANG Zhuo2, SUN Huajun1   

  1. 1 Department of Pharmacy, Shanghai Children's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200062, China; 2 Department of Pharmacy, Shanghai Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China; 3 Department of Biological Medicines & Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Immunotherapeutics, Fudan University School of Pharmacy, Shanghai 201203, China 
  • Received:2024-07-01 Revised:2024-08-27 Online:2024-12-26 Published:2024-11-18

Abstract:

AIM: To analyze the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE) classification system used for evaluating the drug related problems (DRPs) of tacrolimus concentration fluctuations in kidney transplant recipients. METHODS: Kidney transplant recipients were selected as the study subjects, who experienced fluctuations in tacrolimus blood concentrations and clinical pharmacist intervention during outpatient follow-up. PCNE (9.0) classification system was used to evaluate the DRPs of tacrolimus. And the DRP problems, causes, intervention plans, acceptance and status were analyzed. RESULTS: A total of 700 kidney transplant recipients were enrolled from July 2019 to December 2021, and 1014 DRPs were found. The problems of DRPs included the occurrence of adverse drug events (P2.1, 60.16%) and poor treatment outcomes (P1.2, 39.84%); The main reasons included dosage selection (C3, 43%), others (C9, 38.4%), and drug selection (C1, 9.41%); Clinical pharmacists actively intervened at the recipient level (I2, 98.92%) and drug level (I3, 1.08%); The acceptance rate of the intervention plan (A1.1+A1.3) reached 98.62%, and the complete implementation rate (A1.1) reached 72.09%; 79.29% of DPRs were fully or partially resolved (O1.1 and O2.1). CONCLUSION: Clinical pharmacists can use PCNE to evaluate tacrolimus therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) related DRPs, help standardize TDM pharmaceutical service models, standardize TDM abnormal result interpretation and intervention workflows, and promote safe and rational drug utilization.

Key words: kidney transplantation, tacrolimus, therapeutic drug monitoring, outcome intervention, Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe

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