Identification of Barriers for Active Disease Management and of Medication-Related Problems through Therapeutic Patient Education in Older Home-Care Patients.

ABSTRACT: Combining therapeutic patient education (TPE) with a medication review service could foster the adoption of appropriate lifestyles by patients and support care-providers in identifying strategies to improve the quality of prescribed care. This study aimed to identify barriers experienced by patients in managing their diseases and medication-related problems. This was a monocentric, case series, observational study involving home-care patients from the Local Health Authority ASL TO4. Patients were enrolled for a TPE intervention where drug therapies and patient habits were collected through narrative interviews. Medication review was performed to identify potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs). Twenty patients (13 females) with a mean age of 74.7 years were enrolled. Patients had an

SUBMITTER: Grigolo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10815688 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature