Drug therapy-related problem management in Nigeria community pharmacy - process evaluation with simulated patient.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Unresolved drug therapy-related problems (DTRPs) have economic and clinical consequences and are common causes of patients' morbidity and mortality. This study evaluated the ability of community pharmacists to identify and resolve DTRPs and assessed the perceived barriers to DTRP identification and resolution.

Methods

A cross-sectional study which employed the use of three simulated patients (SPs) visit to 36 selected community pharmacies in 11 local government areas in Ibadan, Nigeria. The SPs played the role of a patient with prescription for multiple ailments (23-year-old male), type 2 diabetes and hypertensive patient with medication packs (45-year-old male) and hypertensive patient with gastric ulcer with a prescription (37-year-old female). They re-enacted t

SUBMITTER: Segun SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8848586 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature