Pharmaceutical intervention improves treatment follow-up in discharged patients
The classroom of Pharmacy internship of the University of Navarra offers a talk on a 12-month study with 131 patients.
The classroom of Pharmacy internship of the University of Navarra will offer, next February 15 from 15 to 15 50 h., a talk for Pharmacy, Medicine and Nursing students on a study developed by the Hospital Virgen del Camino that demonstrates the role of pharmaceutical intervention to improve therapeutic adherence - or the Degree in which the patient or care follow the recommendations given by their doctor - of discharged patients.
This work, which will be presented by its authors, Patricia Martín and Isabel Aranguren -former Pharmacy student- consisted of comparing the therapeutic adherence of two groups of patients during 12 months. During this time 131 internal medicine patients received, in one case, their usual discharge report and, in the other, detailed information on the drugs to be taken, both orally and in writing.
According to the authors, three months after discharge, follow-up was evaluated by means of a test (Morinsky-Green-Levine test) and a survey of satisfaction. The results revealed that 78.1% of the patients who received the usual discharge report and the verbal and written information were taking their medication well, compared to 50.8% who were also taking their medication well with only the usual report .
On the other hand, the researchers will explain how treatment adherence was better in men than in women, and the logical fact that satisfaction was higher among those who received pharmacotherapeutic counseling.