Monitoring and managing medication adherence in community pharmacies in Quebec, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community pharmacists have direct access to prescription refill information and regularly interact with their patients. Therefore, they are in a unique position to promote optimal medication use.

Objectives

To describe how community pharmacists in Quebec, Canada, identify nonadherent patients, monitor medication use and promote optimal medication adherence.

Methods

An invitation to complete a web-based survey was published online through different platforms, including a Facebook pharmacists' group, an electronic newsletter, a pharmacy network forum and e-mail. The survey included questions on participant characteristics, methods used by pharmacists to identify nonadherent patients and monitor medication use and interventions they used to promote medication

SUBMITTER: Fenelon-Dimanche R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7079316 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature