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...