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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
ReviewReasons for Nonadherence to Statins - A Systematic Review of Reviews.
Lipid-lowering medications are often prescribed to decrease the risk of micro- and macro-cardiovascular complications related to dyslipidaemia. Despite widespread prescription of lipid-lowering drugs, including statins, adherence to therapy is a challenge worldwide. This systematic review of reviews aimed to conduct a critical appraisal and synthesis of review findings and to provide an overview of the factors that were found to affect adherence to lipid-lowering drugs, focusing on statins, in the reviews. ⋯ This review of reviews has evaluated the impact of factors on adherence statins. Further research related to modifiable predictors for non-adherence is warranted.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
ReviewMissed Care from the Patient's Perspective - A Scoping Review.
Missed care, defined as any aspect of patient care that is omitted or delayed, is receiving increasing attention. It is primarily caused by the imbalance between patients' nursing care needs and the resources available, making it an ethical issue that challenges nurses' professional and moral values. In this scoping review, conducted using the five-stage approach by Arksey and O'Malley, our aim is to analyze the patients' perspective to missed care, as the topic has been mainly examined from nurses' perspective. ⋯ The results concerning patients' age and education level were conflicting. Patients are able to identify missed care. However, further research is needed to examine patient-perceived missed care as well as to examine how patients identify missed care, and to get a clear definition of missed care.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
ReviewThe Outcome of Salt Treatment for Umbilical Granuloma: A Systematic Review.
An umbilical granuloma is one of the common umbilical masses in young children which appears after the cords fall off, mainly due to an inflammatory reaction to subclinical infections. Though there are different recommendations of treatment modalities, which management modality is the best is not clear yet. ⋯ Cooking salt treatment for umbilical granuloma is effective, cheap, available, and easy to apply by non-health professionals. No side effects have been reported yet and a recurrence of the granuloma after treatment seems to be null.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
ReviewCompliance with Primary Malaria Chemoprophylaxis: Is Weekly Prophylaxis Better Than Daily Prophylaxis?
Chemoprophylaxis is an effective tool for individuals to minimize their risk of contracting malaria and serves an important public health role in preventing imported malaria. Yet, it is only effective if the traveller is fully compliant with the prescribed regimen. For many destinations, a choice of prophylactic agents is available, so historical compliance data can be helpful for both physicians and travellers to make an informed decision. ⋯ Malaria chemoprophylaxis for a traveler should depend on prevailing resistance patterns at destination, current national guidelines, and patient preferences. However, when there is a choice, historical compliance data are useful to select a regimen that the traveler is more likely to comply with.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
Exit-Knowledge About Dispensed Medications and Associated Factors Among Ambulatory Patients Attending Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
Optimizing exit-knowledge of ambulatory patients is a major professional responsibility of pharmacists to reassure safe and cost-effective medicines use. The study assessed the exit-knowledge of ambulatory patients on their dispensed medications and associated factors. ⋯ The majority of patients had sufficient exit-knowledge of their dispensed medications. Martially single, neutral clarity of pharmacist's instructions and adequacy of the information delivered by the pharmacist were positively associated with participants' exit-knowledge of their dispensed medications. Hence, conducting a multicenter study, we recommend pharmacists to counsel their patients to underpin patients' knowledge of their dispensed medications.