The Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire utility as a tool in medication review

Background:Identification of potentially non-adherent patients is a milestone in the way to the rational use of drugs. Detecting beliefs that influence intentional non-adherence behaviours may improve pharmacists[simplequote] counselling. The aim of this study was to assess the Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ) as a proxy for necessity..

Target identification of situations of improvement through Medication Review in patients type 2 diabetes

Introduction: Prevention, early detection and management of diabetes are fundamental for stopping this present epidemic. Medication review may contribute to the early detection of negative clinical outcomes risk factors associated to the use of medicines. Aims: To use the medication review to identify the situations that may lead to clinical negative outcomes, described as findings, in the process of medicines use in type 2 diabetic patients. To verify if the inclusion criteria list of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia for medication review allows identifying patients of higher risks of obtaining clinical negative outcomes.

Curricular Unit: Pharmacotherapy Follow-Up

Objectives: Pharmaceutical care is a patient-centered philosophy of assistential practice in which the pharmacist, as a health care team member, has responsibilities in patient medication. The correct use of medicines will significantly decrease the negative outcomes of pharmacotherapy, namely untreated health problem..

Rethinking the capsid proteins of enveloped viruses: multifunctionality from genome packaging to genome transfection

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