Association between the evaluation by a patient care team and compliance with the claim of drugs in pharmacy

Abstract

currently is recognized the achieving challenge a adequate adherence. There are multiple methods to detect whether a patient is non-adherent, including claims history of drugs in pharmacy. This method has been considered adequate. To determine the association between care by an patient care team (including an pharmacist) and compliance with the claim of medicines in pharmacy. case-control study in patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or allergic rhinitis, they claimed their medicines in pharmacies between October of 2012 and November 2013 (n = 526) .was defined as a case the patients that during the observation period claimed their drugs in pharmacy >95% of the time (n: 263). For univariate analysis absolute and relative frequencies and summary measures were used. For binary analysis, contingency tables, chi-square tests, t-Student (Mann-Whitney U) and ANOVA (Kruskal-Wallis H). The statistical measure of force used was the odds ratio. Was performed multivariate logistic regression. 78.3% of cases and 47.1% of controls had been treated by an interdisciplinary group (p<0,001), which had an exposure time of 1.75 (interquartile range 0.79 to 2.34) and 0.32 years (interquartile range 0.24 to 1.02) years, respectively(p<0,001). The cases claimed their drugs in pharmacy 2.52 times more than controls (OR ajusted 2.52 [1.17 to 5.42]).Conclusions: be attended by an patient care team was associated with greater compliance with the claim of medicines in pharmacy.