Corresponding author :
Marion Chappe, PharmD, Department of Pharmacy, Angers University
Hospital 49933 Angers cedex 9, France. E-mail:
marion.chappe@chu-angers.fr; Phone: ++33 2 41 35 35 44
The authors confirm that the Principal Investigator for this paper is M.
Chappe and that she had direct clinical responsibility for patients.
Running heading: Drug-related issues during COVID-19
Key words : Drug-related issues, clinical pharmacy, COVID-19,
older inpatients
Word count : 3,139 ; Abstract word count: 249;Table count : 5; Figure count : 0
KEY POINTS:
During the COVID-19 a less typical form of medical care was expected
for the infected patients, especially for older inpatients.
Clinical pharmacists may help the geriatricians in drug management as
the value of working with them has been demonstrated.
A greater amount of drug-related issues were detected during the first
wave of the pandemic.
The pharmacists’advice focused on drugs used for the management of
COVID-19 rather than geriatric routine treatments.
The needs for clinical pharmacists were strengthened during the
pandemic.