Impact of Clinical Pharmacy Service on Patient Care and Cost Saving

Background: Pharmacists have been proven to improve patient outcomes, medication adherence, glycemic control, reduce blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein, health care costs and length of hospital stay, and enhance quality of life. Objective: to measure the impact of clinical pharmacy service on patient care and cost saving of patients at inpatient wards and ambulatory care clinics of Jimma University Specialized Hospital. Methods: single center Randomized Controlled Trial will be conducted. Participants will be assigned to either pharmacy professionals' intervention group or non-intervention (control) group based on computer generated random number. The study will be done from July 26 to September 15, 2016. The total sample size is calculated with Open Epi online sample size calculator with 95% CI and 80% power. The total sample size is found to be 146 for inpatients and 473 for outpatients. Linear regression, student's t-test, logistic regression and chi-square test will be used for statistical analysis. Variables with p\<0.05 will be considered statistically significant.