Medication Counselling on Unlicensed Medicines Should Be Improved - Results from a Finnish Survey for Patients and Pharmacy Staff.

IF 2.1 Q3 PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice Pub Date : 2024-10-27 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.2147/IPRP.S481732
Tiina Liipo, Tuire Prami, Ilona Iso-Mustajärvi, Mari Pölkki, Anne Juppo
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Background: Finnish authorities have published specific instructions for prescribing, handling, and dispensing unlicensed medicines and for the associated communication with patients. However, there is a clear research gap concerning the quality of medication counselling given by doctors and especially pharmacists to patients who are prescribed unlicensed medicines. The success of such counselling was studied with a survey for both pharmacy staff and patients.

Methods: The survey was conducted in 2022 with two electronic semi-structured questionnaires, one for patients (or caregivers of underaged patients) purchasing medicines with special or fixed-term special permits from community pharmacies in Finland and one for the pharmacy staff dispensing such medication.

Results: In all, 49% of the 389 pharmacists did not know if the prescribing doctor had given any counselling to the patient, and 52% of the pharmacists had not given any counselling to the patient themselves. Still, 51% of the pharmacists considered that the patient had received sufficient medication counselling. Almost every one of the 36 patients expressed that they had received medication counselling, 61% of them from the prescribing doctor and 53% from a pharmacist.

Conclusion: Medication counselling on unlicensed medicines should be improved to ensure their safe and effective use. This survey revealed that many patients did not receive any such medication counselling as required by the Finnish Medicines Decree.

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应改进对无证药品的用药咨询--芬兰患者和药剂师调查的结果。
背景:芬兰当局发布了关于开具、处理和配发无证药品以及与患者进行相关沟通的具体说明。然而,在医生,特别是药剂师为开具无证药品的患者提供用药咨询的质量方面,还存在明显的研究空白。我们通过一项针对药剂师和患者的调查,对此类咨询的成功率进行了研究:调查于 2022 年进行,采用了两份半结构式电子问卷,一份针对在芬兰社区药房购买有特殊或定期特殊许可证药品的患者(或未成年患者的看护人),另一份针对配发此类药品的药房工作人员:在 389 名药剂师中,49% 的药剂师不知道开处方的医生是否向患者提供过任何咨询,52% 的药剂师自己没有向患者提供过任何咨询。但仍有 51%的药剂师认为病人已接受了足够的用药辅导。在 36 名患者中,几乎每一位都表示接受过药物咨询,其中 61% 来自开处方的医生,53% 来自药剂师:结论:应加强对无证药品的用药指导,以确保安全有效地使用这些药品。这项调查显示,许多病人并没有按照《芬兰药品法令》的要求接受任何此类用药咨询。
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