Impact of pharmaceutical care for asthma patients on health-related outcomes: An umbrella review.

Recent systematic reviews suggest that pharmacists' interventions in asthma patients have a positive impact on health-related outcomes. Nevertheless, the association is not well established, and the role of clinical pharmacists is poorly represented. The aim of this overview of systematic reviews is to identify published systematic reviews assessing the impact of pharmacists' interventions on health-related outcomes measured in asthma patients.

Pharmaceutical care and asthma: Protocol of an umbrella review of systematic reviews.

Introduction: Recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses suggest that pharmacists' interventions in asthma patients have a positive impact on health-related outcomes. Nevertheless, the association is not well established and the role of clinical pharmacists is poorly represented, as well as severe asthma patients. The aim of this overview of systematic reviews is to identify published systematic reviews assessing the impact of pharmacists' interventions on health-related outcomes measured in asthma patients, as well as to describe key components of the interventions, the outcomes assessed and any associations between pharmacists' interventions and health-related outcomes.

Selection of interventions aimed at improving medication adherence in patients with multimorbidity.

Objectives: To select interventions aimed at improving medication adherence in patients with multimorbidity by means of a standardised methodology.

Methods: A modified Delphi methodology was used to reach consensus. Interventions that had demonstrated their efficacy in improving medication adherence in patients with multimorbidity or in similar populations were identified from a literature search of several databases (PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, Center for Reviews and Dissemination, and Web of Science).

Identification of the Medication Regimen Complexity Index as an Associated Factor of Nonadherence to Antiretroviral Treatment in HIV Positive Patients.

Background: Multiple studies have identified a relationship between the complexity of a medication regimen and non-adherence. However, most studies in people who live with HIV (PLWH) have focused on antiretroviral use and have failed to consider the impact of other medications.

Objective: The aim of our study is to identify the Medication Regimen Complexity Index (MRCI) as an associated factor for nonadherence to antiretroviral treatment (ART).

Novel tool for deprescribing in chronic patients with multimorbidity: List of Evidence-Based Deprescribing for Chronic Patients criteria.

Aim: To create a tool to identify drugs and clinical situations that offers an opportunity of deprescribing in patients with multimorbidity.

Methods: A literature review completed with electronic brainstorming, and subsequently, a panel of experts using the Delphi methodology were applied. The experts assessed the criteria identified in the literature and brainstorming as possible situations for deprescribing.