Acceptability of a cross-sectoral hospital pharmacist intervention for patients in transition between hospital and general practice: a mixed methods study.

Background And Objective: Drug-related problems (DRPs) are often seen when a patient is transitioning from one healthcare sector to another, for example, when a patient moves from the hospital to a General Practice (GP) setting. This transition creates an opportunity for information on medication changes and follow-up plans to be lost. A cross-sectoral hospital pharmacist intervention was developed and pilot-tested in a large GP clinic.

Developing and piloting a cross-sectoral hospital pharmacist intervention for patients in transition between hospital and general practice.

Background: Healthcare is challenged by a rapidly growing group of patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy. Increasing activity and specialization puts pressure on healthcare sectors. Medication errors in cross-sectoral transition of patients are often seen.

Impact of pharmaceutical care on adherence, hospitalisations and mortality in elderly patients.

Background: Elderly polypharmacy patients may be more at risk of not adhering to medication. If so, the underlying reasons may be more readily disclosed during private discussions with patients. Hence pharmaceutical care discussions at home might improve treatment adherence.

Correlation between the use of ‘over-the-counter’ medicines and adherence in elderly patients on multiple medications.

Background: Medication adherence is a multifaceted issue that is influenced by various factors. One factor may be the concurrent use of over-the-counter (OTC)medicines. The use of OTC medicine has been reported as common amongst elderly patients.

Correlation between the use of 'over-the-counter' medicines and adherence in elderly patients on multiple medications.

Background Medication adherence is a multifaceted issue that is influenced by various factors. One factor may be the concurrent use of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. The use of OTC medicine has been reported as common amongst elderly patients.

Generic substitution does not seem to affect adherence negatively in elderly polypharmacy patients.

Purpose: To investigate the association between generic substitutions and medication adherence in elderly patients with prescribed polypharmacy.

Methods: Our study included 672 patients aged 65+ years, living at home in the municipality of Aarhus (Denmark), who at the time of enrolment took at least five prescription drugs daily including both short-term and long-term treatment independently of kind of administration route but without assistance. In this paper, only oral drugs for long-term treatment are included in the analysis resulting in median of three drugs per patient.

Suitability of an electronic reminder device for measuring drug adherence in elderly patients with complex medication.

We evaluated an electronic reminder device for detecting non-adherence in elderly patients with complex medication regimens. Randomly selected, home-living elderly patients were studied. The patients were aged over 65 years and were taking more than four drugs.

Reinforcing effect of subcutaneous morphine in a modified Ettenberg runway.

Alley running has been successfully used as an operant to demonstrate both the positive and negative reinforcing effect of intravenously administered drugs of abuse in a bona fide operant conditioning paradigm, the Ettenberg runway, in which confounding drug effects on motor performance and drug accumulation are avoided. While Ettenberg and colleagues focus on the intravenous route of drug administration, we tested the practicability of the subcutaneous route of administration in this runway paradigm in Sprague Dawley rats, using morphine as the investigated drug of abuse. We also modified the Ettenberg runway, most notably in that either food (sweetened condensed milk), no food, morphine, or saline was presented outside the runway in a separate cage.