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Provedor de dados: | 60
País: | Brazil
Título: | Clinical outcomes of medication therapy management services in primary health care
Autores: | Mendonça,Simone de Araújo Medina; Melo,Angelita Cristine; Pereira,Gabriela Cristina Coelho; Santos,Danielle Maria de Souza Serio dos; Grossi,Elisa Brandão; Sousa,Maria do Carmo Vilas Boas; Oliveira,Djenane Ramalho de; Soares,Adriana Cristina.
Data: | 2016-09-01
Ano: | 2016
Palavras-chave: | Pharmaceutical care/primary care; Medication therapy management; Chronic health/conditions; Pharmacists/professional practice/Brazil.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT This study evaluates whether the integration of pharmacists into health-care teams through the delivery of pharmaceutical care-based medication therapy management (MTM) services can improve the clinical outcomes of patients with chronic health conditions in the primary health-care setting. A retrospective descriptive study of 92 outpatients assisted by MTM pharmacists in primary health-care units was carried out over 28 months (median follow-up: 05 months). Patients were followed up by MTM pharmacists, with a total of 359 encounters and a ratio of 3.9 encounters per patient. The prevalence of hypertension, diabetes mellitus and dyslipidaemia was 29.5%, 22.0% and 19.4%, respectively. There was a high prevalence of drug-related problems with a ratio of 3.4 per patient. Pharmacists performed a total of 307 interventions to prevent or resolve drug-related problems. With regard to control of the most prevalent chronic medical conditions, a high percentage of patients reached their therapy goals by the last encounter with the pharmacist: 90.0% for hypertension, 72.3% for diabetes mellitus and 90.3% for dyslipidaemia. MTM services provided by pharmacists resolved drug therapy problems and improved patients' clinical outcomes. This study provides evidence for health-care managers of the need to expand the clinical role of pharmacists within the Brazilian public health-care system.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502016000300365
Editor: | Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas
Relação: | 10.1590/s1984-82502016000300002
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences  v.52 n.3 2016
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess