Study interventions and follow-up
In addition to usual care, the patient in the intervention group received pharmacist-led multidisciplinary care. The multidisciplinary team consists of a physician, a pharmacist and a nurse. To ensure the uniformity of the material provided during counseling sessions, all professionals attended training before beginning to work with patients. Patients in the control group were given the hospital’s standard of care discharge counseling on iron supplements, whereas patients in the intervention group were given both the standard of care counseling and a pharmacist-driven discharge counseling on iron supplements.In the intervention group, a pharmacist first spoke with the parents of premature newborns to obtain comprehensive medical, familial, and social histories. A pamphlet with instructions on how to take their medications was given to each parent. Then, they were provided with an educational pamphlet during discharge, Parents signed in the educational pamphlet to confirm that they had received the medication information (