MONDAY. Nov. 13 — A special pharmacy care program encourages elderly patients to act all their medications which can boost their long-term health. U. S researchers report.
The study open that the program — which includes education about medications regular follow-up by pharmacists and dispensing medications using time-specified intumesce packs — increased medication adherence by more than 30 percent.
"We need to operationally evaluate out how to do this. There’s so much effort going into figuring out which drugs are efficacious and so little in getting patients to take their pills," said researcher Dr. Allen Taylor chief of cardiology at Walter Reed Army Medical bear on in Washington. D. C.
"It’s the delivery of clinical pharmacy compassionate which makes education follow-up and custom medication available to patients. It’s a copy of pharmacy care that we don’t evaluate of," Taylor added at a news conference Monday at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting in Chicago.
In their chew over his aggroup noted that. "barriers to medication adherence are numerous but consider the prescription of complex medication regimens treatment of asymptomatic conditions and convenience factors. These factors are particularly prevalent among the elderly population placing them at increased risk for medication nonadherence."
The study will appear in the Dec. 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association but was released early for the AHA meeting.
The researchers studied 174 patients average age 78 who took an average of nine different medications a day and were enrolled in a six-month pharmacy care intervention. When the six-month trial period ended. 159 of the patients were randomized to act the pharmacy compassionate program or go to their usual care for an additional six months.
"After six months of intervention medication adherence increased to 96.9 percent," the study authors noted.
"Six months after randomization the persistence of medication adherence decreased to 69.1 percent among those patients assigned to usual care whereas it was sustained at 95.5 percent in pharmacy care," they wrote.
obtain: Nov. 13. 2007. American Heart Association news conference with Allen Taylor. M. D. chief of cardiology. Walter Reed Army Medical bear on. Washington. D. C.; Dec. 6. 2007. Journal of the American Medical Association
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