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The difficulty of opening medicine containers in old age : a population-based study
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Ingår i: Pharmacy World & Science. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0928-1231 .- 1573-739X. ; 27:5, s. 393-398
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives: To investigate elderly people's ability to open medicine containers, and how this ability correlates to some common disorders that may cause functional or cognitive impairment. Methods: Cross-sectional study of older people age 81 years and older, from the second follow-up (1994-1996) of the Kungsholmen project, a population based study of very old people in an urban area of Stockholm, Sweden. Six hundred and four persons (mean age 86.7 years) were tested for their ability to open three types of medicine containers. The disorders studied were rheumatoid arthritis, stroke, Parkinson's disease, cognitive impairment (measured by mini-mental state examination, MMSE) and impaired vision. Results: We found that 14% were unable to open a screw cap bottle, 32% a bottle with a snap lid, and 10% a blister pack. Female gender, higher age, living in an institution, Parkinson's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, cognitive impairment and impaired vision were all associated with a decreased ability to open the containers. Less than half of the elderly people who were unable to open one or more of the containers received help with their medication. Among those living in their own homes only 27% received help. Conclusion: Older peoples' ability to open medicine containers is impaired by several conditions affecting physical and cognitive functioning. Many elderly people who are unable to open medicine containers do not receive help with their medication, particularly those living in their own homes.
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Differences between the data in the electronic medical record, the prescriptions stored in the Swedish national prescription repository and and the patient’s knowledge of the present treatment
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Ingår i: Pharmacy World & Science. - : Springer. - 0928-1231 .- 1573-739X. ; 32:5, s. 679-
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background and objective Patient adherence to prescribed treatmentfor chronic conditions has been estimated to be on average about 50%(1), drug related problems may cause as much as 30% of acuteadmittances to hospital care (2), and the costs have been estimated tobe of the same magnitude as the direct costs for pharmaceutical drugs.A reason for lack of adherence to the treatment and medication errorsmay be that patients with many drugs, especially when changes in thetreatment have occurred, may have knowledge gaps on the drugsrepresenting the actual prescribed treatment.E-prescribing, from the physicians’ electronic medical record(EMR) directly to the pharmacies, constitute[75% of all prescriptionsin Sweden and [70% of patients in Sweden store theirprescriptions electronically at the national prescription repository(NPR), accessible from any pharmacy in Sweden. Any new e-prescriptionwill automatically be stored in the NPR.However, the NPR may contain both prescriptions for the present,actual treatment, prescription duplicates, and prescriptions for previous,terminated or changed treatment. For patients with manymedications and/or many changes in the treatment it is obvious thatthe risk for medication errors is increased.The objective of the present study was to compare the prescribedtreatment in the EMR, the prescriptions in the NPR, and patient’sknowledge of her/his present prescribed treatment.Design Compare prescribed treatment in the EMR with the prescriptionsin the NPR, and patients knowledge of her/his presentprescribed treatment with regard to prescriptions; prescribed drug,strength; formula and dosing.Setting Ten HCCs in four cities in Sweden, February 2010.Main outcome measures Differences between the computerisedpatients health care journal record and the prescriptions in the NPR,and patients view of her/his actual present prescribed treatment withregard to prescriptions; prescribed drug, strength; formula and dosing.Results The results are available in March 2010.Conclusions Conclusion.References1. Adherence to long-term therapies: evidence for action. WHO,2003.2. Fryckstedt J, Asker-Hagelberg C. Drug-related problems commonat the medical acute care clinic—the cause of admission foralmost one-third of patients. [Läkemedelsrelaterade problemvanliga på medicinakuten - Orsak till inläggning hos nästan vartredje patient, enligt kvalitetsuppföljning] Läkartidningen 2008;105(12–13): 894–898.
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- Ekedahl, Anders, et al.
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Impact of postal and telephone reminders on pick-up rates of unclaimed e-prescriptions.
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Ingår i: Pharmacy World & Science. - : Springer Netherlands. - 0928-1231 .- 1573-739X. ; 30:5, s. 503-508
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of a reminder (i.e., a mailed letter or short telephone call) from the pharmacy to patients, compared with no reminder in a control group, on the pick-up rates of unclaimed e-prescriptions. METHOD: Patients, with e-prescriptions transmitted to four large community pharmacies in two counties in northern Sweden and remaining unclaimed after 4 weekdays, were randomised to one of two intervention groups (a mailed reminder or a short telephonic reminder) or a control group. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Rates of patients' pick-up of their e-prescriptions at follow-up after about 1, 2 and 3 weeks. RESULTS: Altogether, 320 patients with e-prescriptions, transmitted from March 21 through April 6 and not picked-up or dispensed, were identified and randomised to the study. There were no statistically significant differences in overall pick-up rates between the groups or with respect to gender. However, pick-up rates increased with increasing age. Higher pick-up rates were observed for two subgroups (but only in the mailed reminder group compared with controls)--for cardiovascular drugs to men and for respiratory drugs to adolescents and young adults. CONCLUSION: A reminder (i.e., a mailed letter or short telephone call) from the pharmacy to the patient had no statistically significant effect on overall pick-up rates of unclaimed e-prescriptions compared with no reminders.
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Reasons why medicines are returned to Swedish pharmacies unused.
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Ingår i: Pharmacy World & Science. - : Springer Netherlands. - 0928-1231 .- 1573-739X. ; 28:6, s. 352-8
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- OBJECTIVE: To identify the reasons and their relative importance why medicines are returned to Swedish pharmacies unused. SETTING: A random sample of the pharmacies in Sweden. METHOD: Interviews using a semi-structured interview form with pharmacy customers returning unused medicines to the pharmacy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Reasons given by patients/relatives/carers for returning unused medicines to the pharmacy. RESULTS: The four main reasons for returning unused medicines to the pharmacy were: (1) the medicines were too old, (2) the user had died, (3) there was no need for the medicine anymore, and (4) therapy changes. These reasons made up 75% of all reported reasons. CONCLUSION: Hoarding or over-supply of prescribed medicines may explain a large part of the volume of medicines that remain unused. Actions aiming to reduce waste of prescribed medicines ought to focus on those patients who contribute to a substantial part of all unused medicines.
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