Development of a Web-Based Tool Built From Pharmacy Claims Data to Assess Adherence to Respiratory Medications in Primary Care
| Autor: | Lucie Blais, Sandra Peláez, Maria-Kim Turcotte, Catherine Lemière, Catherine Dalal, Amélie Forget, Alia Yousif, Marie-France Beauchesne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty Internet Physician-Patient Relations Primary Health Care business.industry Medical record Pharmacy General Medicine Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Focus group Health informatics Medication Adherence 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030228 respiratory system Family medicine Informatics Facilitator medicine Web application Humans business Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Respiratory care. 65(9) |
| ISSN: | 1943-3654 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Medication adherence in asthma and COPD is notoriously low. To intervene effectively, family physicians need to assess adherence accurately, which is a challenging endeavor. In collaboration family physicians and individuals with asthma or COPD, we aimed to explore the barriers and facilitators of assessing medication adherence in clinical practice (exploratory phase), and to develop a novel web-based tool (e-MEDRESP) that will allow physicians to monitor adherence using pharmacy claims data (development phase). METHODS: We used qualitative research methods and a framework inspired by user-centered design principles. Five focus groups were held: 2 with subjects (n = 15) and 3 with physicians (n = 20), and 10 individual interviews were conducted with physicians. In the exploratory phase, data were analyzed using thematic networks. In the development phase, we identified components to be included in an e-MEDRESP prototype through an iterative approach. The web-based e-MEDRESP tool was constructed by applying algorithms to pharmacy claims data that reflected end-users’ recommendations through an informatics approach designed for electronic medical records. RESULTS: The main barriers to assessing medication adherence included a lack of objective information regarding medication use and short duration of medical visits. Physicians emphasized that identifying patients at risk for nonadherence requires a team effort from pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and nurses. Subjects also agreed that the use of easily interpretable pharmacy claims data could be an important facilitator and contributed to the development of the e-MEDRESP prototype, which contains graphical representations of the adherence to respiratory controller medications and dispensing of rescue medications. CONCLUSIONS: The e-MEDRESP tool has the potential to allow physicians to measure adherence objectively and to facilitate patient-physician communication concerning medication use. Future studies are needed to evaluate the feasibility of implementing e-MEDRESP in clinical practice. It would be relevant to develop strategies that could facilitate the sharing of information presented in e-MEDRESP among primary care health professionals. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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