By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Nursing Home & Elder Business Week -- Investigators publish new report on Clinical Research - Clinical Pharmacy. According to news reporting out of Chelmsford, United Kingdom, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Older people confined to their own homes due to frailty, multiple longterm conditions and/or complex needs, are known to be at risk of medicines-related problems. Whilst a health and social care team approach to supporting these patients is advocated, there is limited evidence regarding how pharmacists can best contribute.”
Financial support for this research came from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity.
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Anglia Ruskin University, “To describe a new specialist pharmacy service (called the integrated care clinical pharmacist) in terms of how it works, what it achieves and its policy implications. Patients’ own homes in Lambeth, London, UK. Community matrons identified patients who were experiencing medicines related problems. These were referred to the integrated care clinical pharmacist who undertook a full medication review and recorded activities, which were independently analysed anonymously. Medicines-related problems and the associated interventions. Result 143 patients were referred to the service over a 15-month period. A total of 376 medicines-related problems were identified: 28 (7%) supply issues, 107 (29%) compliance issues, 241 (64%) clinical issues. A diverse range of interventions were instigated by the pharmacist, requiring the coordination of community pharmacists, primary and secondary health and social care professionals. This project demonstrated that including an integrated care clinical pharmacy service as part of the health and social care team that visits frail, older people in their own homes has benefits. The service operated as part of a wider inter-professional community team.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The service also supported current health policy priorities in medicines optimization by identifying and addressing a wide range of medicines related problems for this vulnerable patient group.”
For more information on this research see: Frail older people with multi-morbidities in primary care: a new integrated care clinical pharmacy service. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy , 2018;40(1):41-47. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy can be contacted at: Springer, Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 Gz Dordrecht, Netherlands. (Springer - www.springer.com; International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy - http://www.springerlink.com/content/2210-7703/)
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting S.A. Francis, Anglia Ruskin Univ, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom. Additional authors for this research include C. Leon, S. Qadir, F. Smith and L. Oboh.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-017-0566-8. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-04-08), New Clinical Pharmacy Study Findings Have Been Reported from Anglia Ruskin University (Frail older people with multi-morbidities in primary care: a new integrated care clinical pharmacy service), Nursing Home & Elder Business Week, 80, ISSN: 1552-2571, BUTTER® ID: 015411078
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