Sample/Participants
The study was carried out in a teaching hospital in Northeast Brazil.
The studied wards were: General Medicine, Intensive Care Unit, and
Surgical wards. Pharmacists, physicians and nurses worked in all wards,
as well as medical residents and other healthcare professionals. We
included all patients admitted to the hospital from December 2016 to
February 2017 and met the following eligibility criteria: 1) being over
18 years of age and 2) being hospitalized for at least 48 hours in one
of the study wards.