Adaptation of oral medication in people institutionalized in nursing homes for whom medication is crushed: The ADECUA Study
| Autor: | Francisco Apolo Carvajal, María González Martínez, Elena Capilla Santamaría, Betsabé Cáliz Hernández, Icíar Cañamares Orbis, Nuria Martínez Casanova, Eugenia Martínez Sánchez, Ainhoa Aranguren Oyarzábal, María José Calvo Alcántara, Encarnación Cruz Martos |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Farmacia Hospitalaria, Vol 40, Iss 6, Pp 514-528 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1130-6343 2171-8695 |
| DOI: | 10.7399/fh.2016.40.6.10467 |
| Popis: | Purpose: To evaluate the effect of pharmacist interventions in the adaptation of pharmaceutical forms in elders institutionalized in nursing homes whose medicines are crushed, which may have a clinical relevance. Methods: Quasi-experimental, multicenter, transversal and prospective study carried out in 10 nursing homes. Subjects for whom drugs were being crushed were identified. Their treatments were reviewed in order to identify drugs that should not be crushed. In these cases, we proposed an alternative to the physician and we evaluated the degree of acceptance, its association to other variables and the pre-post adaptation index (tablets that can be crushed and capsules that can be opened/ total number of tablets and capsules before and after the intervention). Moreover, health professionals received a training course. Results: Medication was being crushed for 33% (618/1875) of residents (mean: 5 drugs susceptible of crushing). 220 pharmaceutical interventions were performed, mostly in extended release or gastro-resistant drugs (48% were accepted). Switch was the type of intervention more frequent (79%), mainly to Purpose: To evaluate the effect of pharmacist interventions in the adaptation of pharmaceutical forms in elders institutionalized in nursing homes whose medicines are crushed, which may have a clinical relevance. Methods: Quasi-experimental, multicenter, transversal and prospective study carried out in 10 nursing homes. Subjects for whom drugs were being crushed were identified. Their treatments were reviewed in order to identify drugs that should not be crushed. In these cases, we proposed an alternative to the physician and we evaluated the degree of acceptance, its association to other variables and the pre-post adaptation index (tablets that can be crushed and capsules that can be opened/ total number of tablets and capsules before and after the intervention). Moreover, health professionals received a training course. Results: Medication was being crushed for 33% (618/1875) of residents (mean: 5 drugs susceptible of crushing). 220 pharmaceutical interventions were performed, mostly in extended release or gastro-resistant drugs (48% were accepted). Switch was the type of intervention more frequent (79%), mainly to |
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