scholarly journals Evaluation of the Community Pharmacy Comorbidities Screening Service on Patients with Chronic Diseases

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 15 ◽  
pp. 1611-1619
Author(s):  
Jędrzej Lewicki ◽  
Urszula Religioni ◽  
Piotr Merks
Keyword(s):  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Screening Service

The satisfaction and opinion of peoples and pharmacists toward Health screening service provided by community pharmacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. e51-e52
Author(s):  
Sunee Lertsinudom ◽  
Parinya Khinnongjok ◽  
Patra Asavatanabodee ◽  
Pentipa Kaewketthong ◽  
Sirirat Tunpichart
Keyword(s):  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Health Screening ◽  
Screening Service

scholarly journals Medication literacy in elderly patients with chronic diseases: a community pharmacy perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Plaza-Zamora ◽  
Isabel Legaz ◽  
Eduardo Osuna ◽  
M. D. Pérez-Cárceles
Keyword(s):  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Term Therapy ◽  
Maintenance Medication ◽  
Older Users ◽  
Long Term Therapy ◽  
New Strategies

Abstract Background: Long-term therapy with chronic maintenance medication is essential for reducing risks of disease progression, comorbidity, and mortality. A correct adherence and use of the medication are prerequisite for reducing these risks. Medication literacy (ML) is the specific ability to safely access and understand the information available concerning medication, and act accordingly.Methods: To investigate the ML in a community pharmacy of older users in order to study the factors that are associated with inadequate literacy. A total of 400 patients were analyzed to assess the level of ML (document and numeracy) through the MedLitRxSE tool.Results: Our study showed that 66% had an inadequate-ML. Women were a high frequency of inadequate-ML respect to men (70.1% and 29.9%). Users over 65 years with chronic diseases showed a high frequency of inadequate-ML (76.5%) in both sexes (P<0.001).Conclusions: Older users, those with primary or any studies as well as patients taking many medicines for chronic diseases showed a significantly lower level of ML. Health professionals and managers should adopt new strategies that allow to prevent and reduce the errors in the handling of the medicines and avoiding the undesirable effects of a misuse in older patients.

scholarly journals A community pharmacy-based cardiovascular risk screening service implemented in Iran

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 919-919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Jahangard-Rafsanjani ◽  
Negar Hakimzadeh ◽  
Amir Sarayani ◽  
Sheyda Najafi ◽  
Kazem Heidari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Screening Service ◽  
Risk Screening

scholarly journals A Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in a Community Pharmacy Setting

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Lenz ◽  
Jessica Skradski ◽  
Maryann Z. Skrabal ◽  
Liz Ferguson ◽  
Michael S. Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Tobacco Cessation ◽  
Lifestyle Modification ◽  
Lifestyle Medicine ◽  
Medication Therapy ◽  
Significant Burden ◽  
Pharmacy Setting

Chronic diseases continue to be a significant burden to the health care system. Pharmacists have been able to show that drug therapy for patients with chronic diseases can be improved through medication therapy management (MTM) services but have yet to become significantly involved in implementing lifestyle modification programs to further control and prevent chronic conditions. A novel and innovative lifestyle medicine program was started by pharmacists in a community pharmacy in 2008 to more comprehensively prevent and manage chronic conditions. The lifestyle medicine program consists of designing seven personalized programs for patients to address physical activity, nutrition, alcohol consumption, weight control, stress management, sleep success, and tobacco cessation (if needed). The lifestyle medicine program complements existing MTM services for patients with hypertension, dyslipidemia, and/or diabetes. This program is innovative because pharmacists have developed and implemented a method to combine lifestyle medicine with MTM services to not only manage chronic conditions, but prevent the progression of those conditions and others. Several innovative tools have also been developed to enhance the effectiveness of a lifestyle medicine program. This manuscript describes the program's pharmacy setting, pharmacy personnel, participants and program details as well as the tools used to integrate a lifestyle medicine program with MTM services. Type: Clinical Experience

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