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Drug Wastage : Observational Study in Intensive Care Units in France
In Brief
An observational study evaluating Quantification of IV drugs wastage for Drug Use. Completed, enrolled 1,066 participants across 61 sites in 3 countries.
Detailed Summary
Environmental awareness leads medical field to question its responsibility and possibilities for action. Drug residues can have a major environmental impact as per their bioaccumulation, toxicity and persistence characteristics, depending on where they are discarded. In France, drug residues should be disposed of by incineration, but in practice, this is not systematic. Moreover, data on drug wastage in Intensive Care Units (ICU) are rare. GAME-OVER observational study aims to evaluate drug wastage in ICU in France and to suggest ways to improve health care practices.
Study Details
Timeline
Arms & Interventions
Patient and prepared/administrated/discarded IV drugs data will be collected during 24 hours.
Interventions
Drugs are prescribed depending on physician discretion. Specific collection bins are provided to ICU. Healthcare teams discard syringes labelled with name and dilution which have been used to prepare drugs into these bins. After 24 hours of collection, bins are analyzed by investigators.