Publications by authors named "Luis Felipe Echeverri-Catano"
Unlabelled: Objetive: This study evaluated the results of treatment adherence scales in two cohorts of patients with diabetes mellitus treated either with human or analogue insulins.
Methods: A cohort study was conducted in diabetes mellitus patients older than 18 that were being treated with human or analogue insulins. Two instruments were applied to each patient [medication possession ratio, Morisky-Green test] to evaluate treatment adherence.
Introduction: Recognizing adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is becoming more important in clinical practice.
Objective: To determine the frequency of adverse drug reactions and ADR suspicions among the population affiliated to the Colombian health system and to describe the drugs, reactions and associated variables.
Materials And Methods: We revised ADRs and ADRs suspicion databases from drugs dispensed by Audifarma, S.
Aims: The results of two scales that measure quality of life of patients with diabetes mellitus treated with conventional or analogue insulin were evaluated and compared.
Methods: Descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study, conducted in the cities of Pereira and Manizales, Colombia, in a care facility between 1 August 2013 and 30 March 2014. A total of 238 patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 1 or type 2 who had been undergoing treatment with conventional or analogue insulin for at least 6months.
Introduction: Self-medication is an increasingly frequent phenomenon worldwide; some studies suggest that there is a relationship with socio-economic and cultural factors.
Objective: To determine the prevalence of self-medication and its related factors in a Colombian city.
Materials And Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study, in Pereira, Colombia.
An economic analysis of inadequate prescription of antiulcer medications for in-hospital patients at a third level institution in Colombia.
Rev Esp Enferm Dig
February 2014
Introduction: The prescription and costs of antiulcer medications for in-hospital use have increased during recent years with reported inadequate use and underused.
Aim: To determine the patterns of prescription-indication and also perform an economic analysis of the overcost caused by the non-justified use of antiulcer medications in a third level hospital in Colombia.
Materials And Methods: Cross-sectional study of prescription-indication of antiulcer medications for patients hospitalized in "Hospital Universitario San Jorge" of Pereira during July of 2012.