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The British Columbia Seniors' Brown Bag Clinic Pilot Project: Medication Problems Identified and Participant Assessments*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

Timothy P. Stratton  and
Patricia M. Foster
Timothy P. Stratton
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
Patricia M. Foster
Affiliation:
P. Foster and Associates
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Résumé

Les cliniques « Brown Bag » permettent aux pharmaciens participants de rencontrer les personnes âgées afin d'examiner les médicaments en leur possession et de corriger les situations qui pourraient mener à des réactions toxiques (DRAPEs — drug-related adverse patient events). Cent vingt-trois patients ont été en contact avec 30 pharmaciens lors des cliniques pilotes tenues dans sept communautés de la Colombie-Britannique. En moyenne, chaque patient a apporté plus de neuf médicaments (prescrits ou non-prescrits) et les cliniciens ont identifié 482 problèmes potentiels de médication (les médecins traitants de 39 patients ont été immédiatement contactés). Plus de 80 pour cent des patients ont considéré les cliniques « Brown Bag » comme étant utiles et ont manifesté le désir de participer à nouveau lors de futures cliniques. Les pharmaciens cliniciens, bien qu'en faveur des cliniques, sont cependant réticents à ré-offrir leur services de façon bénévole. Lors des cliniques de rappel conduites de six à 11 mois plus tard, les patients avaient oublié une bonne partie de l'information obtenue lors des premières sessions.

Keywords

Brown BagMedicationsMisusePharmacistScreening« Brown Bag »prescriptionsabuspharmaciendépistage.
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Summer/été 1992 , pp. 150 - 168
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1992

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