Medication management issues identified during home medication reviews for ambulatory community pharmacy patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The health risks associated with poor medication practices in the home suggest that patients would benefit from home-based medication reviews that could detect and resolve these issues. However, remuneration for home visits often excludes ambulatory, nonhomebound patients. A subset of these patients have issues that cannot be adequately identified and resolved during the course of a typical pharmacy-based medication review.

Purpose

This study aims to characterize the prevalence and nature of "hidden in the home" medication management issues in nonhomebound patients.

Methods

Pharmacists facilitated subject enrollment among patients at 6 community pharmacies in Toronto over a 15-month period, from January 2016 to March 2017. Patients taking 5 or more chronic

SUBMITTER: Papastergiou J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6739651 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature