Publications by authors named "J Peris-Marti"
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating effect on the nursing homes for dependent older people. The difficulty of management of this crisis is aggravated by the frailty of the people served and by the specific characteristics of the care area, mainly the fact of not being integrated into the health system. The objective of this work is to describe the pharmaceutical care developed by a hospital pharmacy service established in a nursing home and, from a more global perspective, analyze the strengths and weaknesses found from the various experiences of hospital pharmacy in all spanish autonomous communities to deal with this pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To describe the current situation regarding the specialized pharmaceutical service provision in nursing homes in Spain, from a healthcare perspective reflecting activity, care and services provided.
Method: Observational, cross-sectional, multicenter study conducted between February-June 2018 through a survey aimed at all Hospital Pharmacy Units in Spain. Once the initial version was assessed by twelve evaluators whose healthcare assistance work were related to nursing homes, an electronic form was designed, consisting on 10 dimensions and 66 questions.
Objective: To develop a clinical protocol for the use of antipsychotic drugs in dementia patients with behavioral disturbances that includes prescribing and deprescribing criteria and to assess its applicability in longterm care institutions.
Method: The protocol was developed from an interdisciplinary perspective based on a literature search of the published proposals on antipsychotic drug use in dementia patients. Its applicability to the antipsychotic deprescribing process was assessed in a single center in a prospective before-after study with a follow-up of 6 months after the intervention study.
Objectives: To analyse the applicability of the STOPP/START criteria as a tool to identify patients with potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) during pharmaceutical validation of prescriptions in a long-term care hospital, to identify risk factors for PIM and to characterise the physiological systems and drugs more frequently associated with these PIM.
Methods: An interventional, prospective and longitudinal study was conducted in polypathological patients aged >65 years. Usual pharmaceutical care and the STOPP/START criteria were used to identify PIM and to plan pharmaceutical interventions at admission.
Objective: To analyze the interaction between acenocoumarol and levofloxacin in the elderly. We also assessed how hypoalbuminemia affects international normalized ratio variation.
Method: Retrospective study carried on elderly institutionalized patients who were prescribed levofloxacin concomitantly with acenocoumarol.