Manfrin, Andrea (2016) Symptom Control and Adherence are Major Issues for Asthmatic Patients: Can they be Improved and are They Linked? Ministry of Health, Rome (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:59377)
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Abstract
Background
A cluster randomized controlled trial involving 15 out of the 20 Italian regions was conducted between September 2014 and July 2015 with data collection before, during and after pharmacists’ intervention; every 3 months (T0, T3, T6, T9). Pharmacists were randomly allocated to different groups after stratification by region: A (n=104) were trained to provide the Italian Medicines Use review (I-MUR) immediately after completion of the baseline Asthma Control TestTM (ACT) score; B (n=112) received training and provided this service 3 months later. The primary outcome measure was asthma control, assessed using the ACT scores, before and after the I-MUR intervention, defined by the international guidelines (ACT?19 = not controlled; ACT ?20 = controlled). Secondary outcome was adherence to treatment before and after the intervention assessed using the Morisky scale.
Pharmacists in group A recruited 428 patients and in group B, 456. Patients were well distributed among regions; the percentage of female was 58.6%. Baseline ACT score showed that 56% of patients had asthma not fully controlled.
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4 Manfrin A, Thomas T, Krska J. Randomised evaluation of the Italian medicines use review provided by community pharmacists using asthma as a model (RE I-MUR). BMC Health services research (2015) 15:171
Item Type: | Book |
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Medway School of Pharmacy |
Depositing User: | Andrea Manfrin |
Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2016 12:01 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2021 13:40 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/59377 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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