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Improving patient's medication adherence in chronic diseases

Main Outcome Measures: Reasons of not taking medications as prescribed and frequency of pharmacist's involvement in improving patient adherence. Results: Preliminary results from 180 self-reported questionnaires show response rate 33%. There were 16 offered reasons for patients' non-adherence. The most frequently reported reasons were the following: forgetfulness (53%), „ ran out of pills“ (40%), away from home (36%), problems with taking pills at specified times (with meals, on empty stomach etc.) (34%), problems with taking more then one medicine at the same time (31%). More than half of the patients (59%) started that pharmacists always checked whether patients' took their medicines for the first time. 64% of patients thought that pharmacists do not check how often they miss their doses. Conclusions: Ba tailoring individual patient medication plan, giving more advice on how to deal with complex drug regimen, checking how often patient miss their doses and asking patient to repeat aloud how they should take their medication, pharmacist can increase patient adherence to long term therapy and in the end therapy effectiveness, patient safety, quality of patient life and rationalize drug expenditure.

adherence; chronic diseases; Zagreb

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