Prescription trends for preservative free glaucoma medication in a public health system.

Autor:	Pérez-García P; Ophthalmology Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria del Hospital Clinico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain., Burgos-Blasco B; Ophthalmology Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria del Hospital Clinico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain., Morales-Fernández L; Ophthalmology Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria del Hospital Clinico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain., Fernández-Ruiz-Morón A; Pharmacology Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain., Gómez-Calleja V; Ophthalmology Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria del Hospital Clinico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain., Oribio-Quinto C; Ophthalmology Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria del Hospital Clinico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain., Collado-Vincueria I; Ophthalmology Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria del Hospital Clinico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain., Garcia-Feijoo J; Instituto de Investigaciones Oftalmológicas Ramon Castroviejo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.; Cooperative Research Network on Age-Related Ocular Disease, and Visual and Life Quality, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.; Ophthalmology Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Dept. of Ophthalmology and ORL, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria del Hospital Clinico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain., Martinez-de-la-Casa JM; Ophthalmology Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria del Hospital Clinico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain.; Instituto de Investigaciones Oftalmológicas Ramon Castroviejo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.; Ophthalmology Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Dept. of Ophthalmology and ORL, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria del Hospital Clinico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	European journal of ophthalmology [Eur J Ophthalmol] 2024 Jan; Vol. 34 (1), pp. 193-203. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 17.
DOI:	10.1177/11206721231170034
Abstrakt:	Purpose: To analyze the prescribing trends over a 7-years period, between 2013 and 2020, in a tertiary hospital (Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain) and its health area. Material and Methods: A retrospective study on the data collected from the information systems, "farm@web" and "Farmadrid", of glaucoma prescriptions in the framework of a public health system (Spanish National Health System) during the last seven years. Results: Prostaglandin analogues were the most commonly used drugs in monotherapy during the study period (range: 36.82% - 47.07%). Fixed combinations of topical hypotensives had an upward trend since 2013 (range: 39.99% - 54.21%), becoming the most dispensed drugs in 2020 (48.99%). Preservative-free eye drops (lacking benzalkonium chloride, BAK) have displaced preservative containing topical treatments in all pharmacological groups. In 2013, BAK-preserved eye drops accounted for 91.1% of the total prescriptions, however in 2020 they only accounted for 34.2% of total prescriptions. Conclusions: The results of the present study highlight the current trend to avoid BAK-preserved eye drops for the treatment of glaucoma. Competing Interests: Declaration of conflicting interestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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