Cargando…

Integrating the Public Health Services Model into Age-Friendly Pharmacies: A Case Study on the Pharmacies in Taiwan

Taiwan is expected to become a superaged society by 2026. Community pharmacies have recently joined Taiwan’s primary care system; they have great potential to provide professional healthcare services. This study examined whether the services provided by community pharmacists enhance medication adher...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Chen, Shih-Chang, Lee, Kuan-Han, Horng, Der-Juinn, Huang, Po-Jui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8621832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34828634
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9111589
_version_ 1784605550113193984
author Chen, Shih-Chang
Lee, Kuan-Han
Horng, Der-Juinn
Huang, Po-Jui
author_facet Chen, Shih-Chang
Lee, Kuan-Han
Horng, Der-Juinn
Huang, Po-Jui
author_sort Chen, Shih-Chang
collection PubMed
description Taiwan is expected to become a superaged society by 2026. Community pharmacies have recently joined Taiwan’s primary care system; they have great potential to provide professional healthcare services. This study examined whether the services provided by community pharmacists enhance medication adherence, enable the identification and solution of drug therapy problems, and are accepted by community residents. The Department of Public Health, Taoyuan City, collaborated with the Taoyuan Pharmacist Association over 11 months in 2018 in enabling pharmacists to dispense prescriptions and provide medication adherence consultations, cognitive services, and home and institutional medical care services. This study designed four satisfaction questionnaires to assess the feasibility and performance of these services. Regarding the services related to medication knowledge and adherence, 92.10% of the patients reported overall satisfaction, and all understanding and ability scores were improved in more than 95% of patients. The number of patients highly cooperative regarding their medication had risen from 14 to 234 after the intervention, and the number with low medication adherence had dropped from 533 to 33. More than 90% of respondents indicated that the institutional medical care services had significantly improved their medication knowledge and behaviors. The feasibility of the incorporation of integrated the public health services model into age-friendly pharmacies was confirmed by this study.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8621832
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-86218322021-11-27 Integrating the Public Health Services Model into Age-Friendly Pharmacies: A Case Study on the Pharmacies in Taiwan Chen, Shih-Chang Lee, Kuan-Han Horng, Der-Juinn Huang, Po-Jui Healthcare (Basel) Article Taiwan is expected to become a superaged society by 2026. Community pharmacies have recently joined Taiwan’s primary care system; they have great potential to provide professional healthcare services. This study examined whether the services provided by community pharmacists enhance medication adherence, enable the identification and solution of drug therapy problems, and are accepted by community residents. The Department of Public Health, Taoyuan City, collaborated with the Taoyuan Pharmacist Association over 11 months in 2018 in enabling pharmacists to dispense prescriptions and provide medication adherence consultations, cognitive services, and home and institutional medical care services. This study designed four satisfaction questionnaires to assess the feasibility and performance of these services. Regarding the services related to medication knowledge and adherence, 92.10% of the patients reported overall satisfaction, and all understanding and ability scores were improved in more than 95% of patients. The number of patients highly cooperative regarding their medication had risen from 14 to 234 after the intervention, and the number with low medication adherence had dropped from 533 to 33. More than 90% of respondents indicated that the institutional medical care services had significantly improved their medication knowledge and behaviors. The feasibility of the incorporation of integrated the public health services model into age-friendly pharmacies was confirmed by this study. MDPI 2021-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8621832/ /pubmed/34828634 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9111589 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Chen, Shih-Chang
Lee, Kuan-Han
Horng, Der-Juinn
Huang, Po-Jui
Integrating the Public Health Services Model into Age-Friendly Pharmacies: A Case Study on the Pharmacies in Taiwan
title Integrating the Public Health Services Model into Age-Friendly Pharmacies: A Case Study on the Pharmacies in Taiwan
title_full Integrating the Public Health Services Model into Age-Friendly Pharmacies: A Case Study on the Pharmacies in Taiwan
title_fullStr Integrating the Public Health Services Model into Age-Friendly Pharmacies: A Case Study on the Pharmacies in Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed Integrating the Public Health Services Model into Age-Friendly Pharmacies: A Case Study on the Pharmacies in Taiwan
title_short Integrating the Public Health Services Model into Age-Friendly Pharmacies: A Case Study on the Pharmacies in Taiwan
title_sort integrating the public health services model into age-friendly pharmacies: a case study on the pharmacies in taiwan
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8621832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34828634
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9111589
work_keys_str_mv AT chenshihchang integratingthepublichealthservicesmodelintoagefriendlypharmaciesacasestudyonthepharmaciesintaiwan
AT leekuanhan integratingthepublichealthservicesmodelintoagefriendlypharmaciesacasestudyonthepharmaciesintaiwan
AT horngderjuinn integratingthepublichealthservicesmodelintoagefriendlypharmaciesacasestudyonthepharmaciesintaiwan
AT huangpojui integratingthepublichealthservicesmodelintoagefriendlypharmaciesacasestudyonthepharmaciesintaiwan