The results suggest that although there are many different potential ways through which consumers' use of medicines could be targeted to improve outcomes, no single strategy worked across all settings. Some of the strategies that appear to improve medicines use include medicines self-monitoring, simplified dosing regimens and directly involving pharmacists in medicines management.
MNCLHD
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers
This overview of systematic reviews has recently been published by by the Cochrane Collaboration. Researchers reviewed the evidence from 75 systematic reviews up to March 2012 about the effects of interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers, irrespective of disease, medicine type, population or setting.
The results suggest that although there are many different potential ways through which consumers' use of medicines could be targeted to improve outcomes, no single strategy worked across all settings. Some of the strategies that appear to improve medicines use include medicines self-monitoring, simplified dosing regimens and directly involving pharmacists in medicines management.
The results suggest that although there are many different potential ways through which consumers' use of medicines could be targeted to improve outcomes, no single strategy worked across all settings. Some of the strategies that appear to improve medicines use include medicines self-monitoring, simplified dosing regimens and directly involving pharmacists in medicines management.
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