A communication procedure between community pharmacists and primary care professionals resolves medication errors and other administrative issues.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to implement a communication procedure, with agreed-upon protocols, to resolve daily medication errors and other administrative issues that require communication between community pharmacists (CPs) and primary healthcare professionals (PHCPs).

Methods: A 6-month pilot study followed by a year-length principal study was carried out in the Donostialdea Integrated Healthcare Organisation (IHO). Afterwards, the project was extended to other IHOs.

[Evaluation of the collaboration between Primary and Hospital Care in order to improve inappropriate prescription].

Introduction And Objectives: To evaluate the implementation of a collaborative experience between Primary (PC) and Hospital Care (HC) aimed at reducing potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) in patients with polypharmacy.

Materials And Methods: Collaborative experience including a controlled before-after intervention study, carried out in the Donostialdea Integrated Health Organization (IHO), with Bilbao Basurto IHO as control group, Osakidetza, Basque Health Service. Participant were 227 PC physicians and physicians from 7 hospital services, and patients with 5 or more drugs meeting at least one PIP criteria.

[Evaluation of an educational intervention and a structured review of polypharmacy in elderly patients in Primary Care].

Background And Objective: Several interventions have been shown to reduce polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescription (PIP). The objective of the study was to evaluate the number of drugs and PIP before and after an educational intervention with the Primary Care physician (PCP), with electronic identification of PIP and structured medication review, in elderly patients with excessive polypharmacy (≥10 drugs).

Material And Methods: A before-after intervention study was conducted in the Gipuzkoa district of Osakidetza (Basque Country Health System), in a random sample of patients older than 80 years taking ≥ 10 drugs, and whose PCP attended training sessions.

[Deprescribing long-term treatments with bisphosphonates for osteoporosis in primary care in the Basque Country (Spain)].

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a multifactorial intervention to promote bisphosphonate deprescription after over 5 years of use (BF5y) in a health care organisation (HCO) in Gipuzkoa (Spain) and to compare it with the standard intervention in other HCOs in the Basque Health Service-Osakidetza.

Methods: An 8-month follow-up study (results from before and after) to assess the impact of two interventions. All patients from Osakidetza receiving BF5y treatment (electronic prescription) in July 2013 were included.