2023
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2023.1128457
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Using the national electronic prescription system to determine the primary non-adherence to medication in the Czech Republic

Abstract: The primary medication non-adherence occurs when a patient does not collect his or her newly prescribed medication. Various studies give estimates that this occurs between 0.2 percent and 74 percent. Recently, this topic has been researched by analyzing data in national electronic prescription systems. The database of the Czech electronic prescription system was used to obtain the number of all prescriptions issued and collected in 2021 for fifty particular substances (associated with six medication groups). A… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1

Citation Types

0
1
0

Year Published

2024
2024
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
3
1

Relationship

0
4

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 4 publications
(1 citation statement)
references
References 25 publications
0
1
0
Order By: Relevance
“…Thus, the problem seems to be persistent, and definitely not related to the pandemic only. Of interest is the fact that in a 2021 analysis including six classes of drugs, performed in the neighbouring country of the Czech Republic ( Bruthans et al, 2023 ), primary non-adherence was most prevalent (5.7%) for lipid-lowering drugs, underscoring statins as particularly prone to poor adherence. Indeed, our results coming from the analysis of real-world data of national cohort prove that non-adherence to statins is prevalent in Poland.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, the problem seems to be persistent, and definitely not related to the pandemic only. Of interest is the fact that in a 2021 analysis including six classes of drugs, performed in the neighbouring country of the Czech Republic ( Bruthans et al, 2023 ), primary non-adherence was most prevalent (5.7%) for lipid-lowering drugs, underscoring statins as particularly prone to poor adherence. Indeed, our results coming from the analysis of real-world data of national cohort prove that non-adherence to statins is prevalent in Poland.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%