Access to chronic medicines: patients' preferences for a last kilometre medicine delivery service in Cape Town, South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic patients are required to access their chronic medicines on a regular basis, often only to refill their repeat prescriptions. Adherence to chronic medicines is challenging and has stimulated health care providers to devise differentiated service delivery models of care to decentralise chronic medicine distribution to decrease the frequency of medicine collection at health care facilities. One such option includes a last kilometre medicine delivery service. This study investigated chronic patients' preferences for a last kilometre medicine delivery service model.

Methods

An exploratory non-randomised quantitative study was conducted over 4 weeks at four public sector primary health care facilities in Cape Town, South Africa. Data was collected on a structure

SUBMITTER: Adams S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7899209 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature