Investigation of the Usefulness of Medication Notebooks No.4: Questionnaire on Awareness of Medication Notebooks and Their Usage Among Doctors in Yamagata City

文良, 小嶋; 直子, 武田; 真美子, 武田; 可奈子, 櫻井; 貢康, 半田; 由香, 相原; 純, 峯田; 幸男, 新田; 順子, 伊藤; 千賀子, 岡嵜; 義人, 仲川; 康弘, 渡辺

doi:10.5649/jjphcs.33.54

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“…In addition, pharmacists can provide proper dispensing and administration instructions based on the DPB information. However, there are often cases where the patient does not bring the DPB to the medical institution, the patient does not show the DPB to the treatment provider, or the patient has multiple DPBs and so on, and uniform management of drug administration information is still insufficient [6] [7]. There are reports that whether PHRs can be effectively used is affected by the understanding of the importance by the patient him/herself regarding PHR [8].…”

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Effect on Patient Safety of Brief Interventions Performed by Pharmacists via Drug Profile Books: VISualization of Treatment Assist by pharmacists (VISTA) Project in Japan

Shoji¹,

Onda²,

Arakawa³

2016

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In Japanese pharmacies, Drug Profile Books (DPBs), which are a type of Personal Health Record (PHR), are incorporated in order to prevent duplicate medication and drug interactions in outpatients (patients) through the uniform management of drug administration information. In this study, we tried to clarify the effect on patient safety of brief interventions via DPBs by pharmacists. The study design was a randomized controlled trial on pharmacies as clusters. 65 pharmacies agreed to participate in the study (intervention group (IG): 33; control group (CG): 32). The primary outcomes were: rate of inquiry occurrence, rate of prescription change, and rates of duplicate medications & drug interactions. 56 pharmacies (IG: 29; CG: 27) completed the study. There was a higher tendency for prescription changes in the IG compared to the CG (IG: 0.03%; CG: 0.02%; P = 0.08). In addition, the rate of duplicate medications & drug interactions accounting for the inquiries was significantly higher in the IG than in the CG (IG: 89.2%; CG: 71.9%; P = 0.01). This implied that brief interventions by pharmacists using DPBs had an effect in raising patient safety.

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Effect on Patient Safety of Brief Interventions Performed by Pharmacists via Drug Profile Books: VISualization of Treatment Assist by pharmacists (VISTA) Project in Japan

Shoji¹,

Onda²,

Arakawa³

2016

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The Need for Collaboration between Community Pharmacies and Hospitals or Clinics in Providing Medical Treatment for Patients with Headache

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It is often noted that the collaboration of hospital-to-hospital, hospital-to-clinic and clinic-to-clinic in medical care for patients with headache is important. However, the role of community pharmacies in the medical network for consultation of patients with headache is not clear. Here, we investigated the role of pharmacists in a community pharmacy in encouraging patients with headache to undergo medical examination and elucidated their future needs using a questionnaire intended for doctors and pharmacists. About 70％ of pharmacists had experience with recommending that patients with headache consult a hospital. However, only 17％ of doctors had experience with referral of patients with headache by pharmacists in a community pharmacy. About 22％ of pharmacists had experiences in which the patient with headache refused to consult a hospital despite the recommendation, suggesting that many patients did not think that their headache symptoms were severe. In addition, 90％ of doctors and 84％ of pharmacists felt the need for collaboration between hospitals or clinics and community pharmacies. Doctors needed information from pharmacists on thè`c urrent state of drugs'' taken by patients. However, pharmacists considered that they needed to provide not only``current state of drugs being taken'' but also``symptoms of headache'' to doctors. Although 67％ of doctors considered the medication notebook to be useful for pharmacists to provide patient information to doctors, pharmacists preferred to provide the information by telephone. Moreover, 56％ of pharmacists did not know how to search a website for medical specialists in headache. A medical network including not only hospitals or clinics but also community pharmacies might be useful for patients with headache.

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Study on Usefulness of Audit of Patient Medication Notebooks Using Prescription Checking System in Dispensing Fee Invoicing Computer

Shibata¹,

Kawachi²,

Taguchi³

et al. 2008

Jpn. J. Pharm. Health Care Sci.

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Investigation of the Usefulness of Medication Notebooks No.4: Questionnaire on Awareness of Medication Notebooks and Their Usage Among Doctors in Yamagata City

Cited by 6 publications

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Effect on Patient Safety of Brief Interventions Performed by Pharmacists via Drug Profile Books: VISualization of Treatment Assist by pharmacists (VISTA) Project in Japan

Effect on Patient Safety of Brief Interventions Performed by Pharmacists via Drug Profile Books: VISualization of Treatment Assist by pharmacists (VISTA) Project in Japan

The Need for Collaboration between Community Pharmacies and Hospitals or Clinics in Providing Medical Treatment for Patients with Headache

Study on Usefulness of Audit of Patient Medication Notebooks Using Prescription Checking System in Dispensing Fee Invoicing Computer

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