Background And Purpose: Psoriasis is a chronic, immune-mediated inflammatory skin disease that significantly impacts patients' quality of life. The integration of telepharmacy has the potential to enhance patient care by providing flexible and personalized pharmaceutical follow-up. This study (TELEPROM Psoriasis) evaluates a telepharmacy model for evaluating electronic Patient-Reported outcomes (ePROMs) for individuals with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in Spain with biological treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This article describes a study protocol for the implementation of quality and traceability control in the hazardous medication circuit through an analysis of risks and the development and introduction of a Big Data-based software application aimed at performing a continuous and dynamic audit of the whole system. Method: A standardized graphical modeling tool called Business Process Model Notation will be used to generate a detailed description of each of the stages in the hazardous medication circuit with a view to ensuring full traceability of the system. The information on each stage will be collected in a flowchart, which will be used -together with each event's likelihood of occurrence and severity- as a basis to calculate the criticality index of the different control points established and to determine any control measures that may be required.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess the perception of risk of exposure in the management of hazardous drugs (HDs) through home hospitalization and hospital units.
Material And Methods: A questionnaire was released, at the national level, to health professionals with HD management expertise. Questionnaire included 21 questions that were scored using a Likert scale: 0 (null probability) to 4 (very high probability).
Objective: The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential clinical impact of pharmacogenetic testing on the reduction of the toxicity in patients treated with fluoropyrimidines. This will be achieved by comparing the frequency of adverse events and the incidence of toxicity of two groups of patients that will differ from each other only in that one will receive pharmacogenetic counseling. The hypothesis is that availability of a pharmacogenetic report prior to treatment initiation has a positive effect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To identify the hazards and define the theoretical occupational risks arising from the process of handling hazard drugs in hospital pharmacy services on the basis of expert consensus.
Method: An expert consensus was conducted (nominal group and documentary techniques) using a mixed method of two face-to-face rounds (meeting of participants and approval of proposals) and three masked rounds (individualized review). The analysis was applied to the field of hospital pharmacy.
Objective: To review the scientific literature related to the safe handling of hazardous drugs (HDs).
Method: Critical analysis of works retrieved from MEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, Scopus, CINHAL, Web of Science and LILACS using the terms "Hazardous Substances", "Antineoplastic Agents" and "Cytostatic Agents", applying "Humans" and "Guidelines" as filters. Date of search: January 2017.
Objective: To design a therapeutic exchange protocol for antidepressants and clinically assess variables, such as: compliance level, frequency of cases with clinically significant increase on the Udvalg-für-Kliniske-Undersogelser (UKU) psychopharmacological scale, adverse effects analysis, overall analysis of UKU rating development and patients' level of acceptance. Secondary objectives were to correlate psychopharmacological treatment aspects with the pharmacological morbidity level, and evaluate the clinical impact of pharmacotherapeutic optimisation measures.
Method: The protocol is designed in accordance with a bibliographical review, which was approved by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Commission.