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| Assessing the need for a domiciliary pharmaceutical service for elderly patients using a coding system to record and quantify data | | Author(s) | Deirdre M Naylor, David V Oxley |
| Journal title | Pharmaceutical Journal, vol 258, no 6937, 5 April 1997 |
| Pages | pp 479-484 |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Domiciliary services ; Housebound ; Needs [elderly] ; Measurement ; Evaluation ; Bradford. |
| Annotation | This article reports on a programme of up to six monthly visits by 13 community pharmacists in Bradford to 86 older housebound patients taking four or more prescribed medicines concurrently. Analysis of data was made by coding all patient and pharmacist identified problems, and pharmacist interventions. Each pharmacist interviewed patients in their homes to discuss their drug therapies. The most common problems reported by patients were: unrelieved symptoms (36%); difficulty remembering the dose of one or more items of medication (35%); and drug-related side effects (27%). The pharmacists found that 55% of patients were prescribed medication which highlighted a potential drug interaction, 47% of patients did not know the purpose of at least one their drugs, and 33% of patients were taking at least one item of medication incorrectly. A change in medication resulted from interventions by community pharmacists for 48% of patients during the span of the service, and 36% benefited from provision of a compliance aid. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980108241 A |
| Classmark | LLD: N: C6: IK: 3R: 4C: 88A * |
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