{"id":651,"date":"2020-12-14T11:56:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/?p=651"},"modified":"2020-12-22T16:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T21:21:49","slug":"role-of-pharmacist-led-home-medication-review-in-community-setting-and-the-preparation-of-medication-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/2020\/12\/14\/role-of-pharmacist-led-home-medication-review-in-community-setting-and-the-preparation-of-medication-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Role of pharmacist led home medication review in community setting and the preparation of medication list."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-651\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-651-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-651-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-651-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><table width=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"102\"><strong>Study type\/ Setting<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Methods<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"240\"><strong>Outcomes<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"196\"><strong>Recommendations<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"100\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"102\">Cross sectional interventional study<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Setting: Community<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">- The study was conducted to identify, prevent and resolve potential medication-related problems, optimize pharmacotherapy and<\/p>\n<p>assist in achieving better health outcomes for patients at home through Home Medicines Review (HMR)<\/p>\n<p>- HMR is a patient-focused, meticulous and collaborative health care service provided by pharmacists in the community setting.<\/p>\n<p>- Study was conducted for a period of 6 months in 85 patients where discrepancies of the prescriptions, knowledge gap of the patients, use of other medication and storage conditions of medicines were evaluated<\/td>\n<td width=\"240\">- The patient had a lack of knowledge in factors like the name of the drug (34%), the reason for taking the medication (27%), etc.<\/p>\n<p>- Drug interaction was a primary concern main discrepancy found in majority of the prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p>- Around 32% of the population experienced ADR on taking the medication and among the patients interviewed, 64% of them didn\u2019t use any OTC drugs along with prescribed drugs.<\/p>\n<p>- Around 60 of the interviewed patients stored multiple drugs in a same container and 52 of the patient\u2019s medicines had illegible labels.<\/td>\n<td width=\"196\">- Qualified pharmacists can play a major role in improving the appropriateness of prescribing, preventing medication related adverse events.<\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">Chandrasekhar D et al. (2019)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S2213398418300034?via%3Dihub\" class=\"broken_link\">No open access version available<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"5\">Chandrasekhar D, Joseph E, Ghaffoor FA, Thomas HM. Role of pharmacist led home medication review in community setting and the preparation of medication list.<br \/>\nClinical Epidemiology and Global Health. 2019;7(1):66-70. doi:10.1016\/j.cegh.2018.01.002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study type\/ Setting Methods Outcomes Recommendations Source Cross sectional interventional study &nbsp; Setting: Community &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8211; The study was conducted to identify, prevent and resolve potential medication-related problems, optimize pharmacotherapy and assist in achieving better health outcomes for patients at home through Home Medicines Review (HMR) &#8211; HMR is a patient-focused, meticulous and collaborative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[25,10,11,41],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 12:11:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}