{"id":14617,"date":"2012-02-22T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/meno-errori-di-prescrizione-se-farmacista-affianca-mmg\/"},"modified":"2012-02-22T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T05:30:00","slug":"meno-errori-di-prescrizione-se-farmacista-affianca-mmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/meno-errori-di-prescrizione-se-farmacista-affianca-mmg\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer prescription errors if the pharmacist works alongside Mmg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">If the prescribing activity by general practitioners were supported by the advice of a pharmacist, a large part of the errors would be avoided, especially with patients at risk. This was verified by a study published by The Lancet, on a sample of 72 patients in therapy with drugs often associated with errors, such as for example ace inhibitors, diuretics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The doctors involved in the study were equipped with a computerized system to receive feedback from patients, and some professionals were randomized to receive the advice of a pharmacist with whom the problems identified by the system and the action plan were discussed. This required about two days a week for 12 weeks in order to manage the problem and in some cases the patient was asked for check-ups. After six months of follow-up, there was almost 50% less probability of errors in elderly patients taking ACE inhibitors or diuretics, 42% less in prescribing NSAIDs in patients with a history of peptic and gastric ulcers, and 27% less in prescribing beta blockers in patients with asthma. \u00abWe know that doctors are aware of the risks of the drugs most commonly associated with adverse events\u00bb explain the authors of the survey \u00abbut errors do occur and our study indicates a way to deal with them. We believe it is urgent\u201d they conclude \u201cto extend this type of intervention conducted by the pharmacist to all general practitioners to avoid unnecessary errors in the future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">The Lancet, Early Online Publication, February 21, 2012<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><font face=\"Calibri\">22 February 2012 \u2013 Pharmacist33<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Information technology to reduce prescription errors&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- FEATURE IMAGE --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pharmacist - Copyright: Science Photo Library\" hspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pharmacist - Copyright: Science Photo Library\" align=\"left\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" valign=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/download.thelancet.com\/flatcontentassets\/feature\/200212.jpg\" \/><!-- FEATURE TEASER -->Medication errors are an important cause of potentially avoidable morbidity and mortality in primary and secondary care. Results from the <a class=\"site-lvl-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(11)61817-5\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PINCER study<\/a> highlight how a pharmacist-led, information technology-based intervention reduces errors in prescribing of drugs in primary care and is cheap and easy to implement, costing \u00a375 for each error avoided. Three clinically important and commonly made errors were analysed: non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs prescribed to those with a history of peptic ulcer without co-prescription of a proton-pump inhibitor; \u03b2-blockers prescribed to those with a history of asthma; and long-term prescription of angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or loop diuretics to those 75 years or older without assessment of urea and electrolytes in the preceding 15 months.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Se l&#8217;attivit&agrave; di prescrizione da parte dei medici di medicina generale fosse supportata dalla consulenza di un farmacista, si eviterebbe buona parte degli errori soprattutto con pazienti a rischio. Lo ha verificato uno studio pubblicato da The Lancet, su un campione di 72 pazienti in terapia con farmaci spesso associati a errori, come per esempio &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedaiisf-archivio-storico"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}