Publications by authors named "Aysu Selcuk"
Objectives: This study aimed to develop a Turkish scale to assess medication literacy and to evaluate its psychometric properties among adults having at least 12 years of education in Türkiye.
Materials And Methods: After the composition of a preliminary set of items, the content validity of the scale was assessed by an e-Delphi process and a pilot study. The psychometric properties of the scale were evaluated in 358 participants, who had above 12 years of education: university students, academics and, administrative staff from two faculties (pharmacy and law) in two universities located in two major cities (İstanbul and Ankara) in Türkiye between March and May, 2021.
Objectives: This study aimed to identify the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication use (PIMU) in adults above the age of 65 with chronic kidney disease (CKD) according to the American Geriatric Society Beers Criteria (Beers), Screening Tool of Older People's Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions Criteria (STOPP) and medication appropriateness index (MAI) 30 criteria and to compare them to justify their use in this specific patient group.
Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective and descriptive study conducted between October 1, 2019 and March 18, 2020 at Ibni Sina Hospital, Nephrology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University.
Results: Among 269 patients discharged from the hospital during the study period, 100 of them were eligible for the study.
Background: Noncommunicable diseases account for the majority of all deaths and impose a high socioeconomic burden, causing disability and premature deaths. Pharmacists can contribute to the prevention and management of these diseases through the provision of pharmaceutical care services.
Aim: The aim of this study was to implement a nationwide practice developed by the Turkish Pharmacists' Association aiming to realize pharmaceutical care provision of standard quality to patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and hypertension at community pharmacies through a continuing professional development approach.
Inappropriate antimicrobial use is a key problem causing antimicrobial resistance and increased health care costs. Although global point prevalence surveys on antimicrobial prescribing in hospitals were described, there is lack of data from Turkish hospitals. Here, we aimed to perform systematic review and meta-analysis for the point prevalence surveys on antimicrobial prescribing in Turkish hospitals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Inappropriate antimicrobial use is a major cause for the development of antimicrobial resistance in nursing homes (NHs); however, little is known about antimicrobial use at NHs in Singapore compared with NHs in other countries.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence, practice and challenges of antimicrobial prescribing in Singapore NHs compared with those in other countries.
Methods: A point prevalence survey (PPS) was conducted from August to October 2017.
Background With the Ministry of Health's projected increase in nursing home beds and optimization of antimicrobial use in health care settings, it is therefore timely to consider baseline prevalence and patterns of antimicrobial use at nursing homes in Singapore as well as to evaluate the prevalence of potential clinically significant drug-drug interactions involving antimicrobials. Objective The primary objective was to determine the prevalence and patterns of antimicrobial use at nursing homes in Singapore. The secondary objective was to evaluate the prevalence of potential clinically significant drug-drug interactions involving antimicrobials.
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