Evaluation of an enhanced service for medication review with follow up in Swiss community pharmacies: Pre-post study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Switzerland, 20,000 people are hospitalized each year as result of drug related problems (DRPs). The sources of DRPs can be related to patients' behavior (i.e., wrong administration) or to health processes (i.e., drug-drug interaction). No community pharmacy (CP) service focus on DRPs related to patients' behavior is currently recognized or remunerated in Switzerland. A medication review with follow up (MRF) has been developed to evaluate prescription and non-prescription medication.

Objective

To evaluate the impact of MRF service for the identification and management DRPs associated to patients' behavior and to describe pharmaceutical interventions carried out through MRF.

Methods

A pre-post intervention study with a cluster design and one intervention

SUBMITTER: Amador-Fernandez N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10581489 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature