Resultados de pesquisa

The prevalence of chronic diseases increases with age, and the constant growth of the overall population makes adherence to therapy a major challenge. A solution to the problem of non-adherence to therapy prescribed by the physician population is the implementation, in community pharmacy, of stock monitoring and pharmacist intervention. We evaluated 54 elderly patients treated with at least 3 drugs with an autonomous life. Adherence to drugs prescription was observed by monitoring the patients, counting of medications not administered and historical progress of the lipid profile, blood glucose, blood pressure and cardiovascular risk in the beginning and end of the study. The purpose of this study was achieved in general, since the pharmaceutical intervention contributed to the adherence to therapy, thereby reducing the impact of risk f...

While new more potent and complex pharmaceutical agents are becoming available, increasing demands on doctors and the health care system, the increase of drug related morbidity and mortality throughout the world and rising costs related with the incorrect use of medicines make it clear that the identification of a practitioner who is available to focus on the management of all of a patient’s medicines would be an important asset to the future of human health. Medicines are precious, but patients need to learn how to use them. It is possible that this will be one of the advantages that the pharmacist, as a medicine specialist, will bring to the health system, i.e. the promotion of the rational use of medicines as laid down in legislation. The correct use of medicines will significantly decrease the negative outcomes of phar- macotherapy...