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A Systematic Review of Independent and Chain Pharmacies Effects on Medication Adherence
As the last step in the care pathway, pharmacies can significantly impact a patient’s medication adherence and the success of treatment. The potential impact of patient’s pharmacy choice on their medication adherence has yet to be established. This study aims to review the impact a pharmacies owners...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9607108/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36287445 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy10050124 |
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author | Nind, James Smith, Alesha Scahill, Shane Marra, Carlo A. |
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description | As the last step in the care pathway, pharmacies can significantly impact a patient’s medication adherence and the success of treatment. The potential impact of patient’s pharmacy choice on their medication adherence has yet to be established. This study aims to review the impact a pharmacies ownership model, either independent or chain, has on its users’ medication adherence. As a generalisation, independent pharmacies offer a more personal service and chain pharmacies offer medications at lower prices. A keyword search of EMBASE and MEDLINE databases in March 2022 identified 410 studies, of which 5 were deemed to meet our inclusion criteria. The studies mostly took place in North America, measured medication adherence using pharmacy records over a 12-month period. This review was unable to substantiate a difference in the rate of medication adherence between the users of independent and chain pharmacies. However, those with a lower income, greater medication burden, and increased age appeared to use an independent pharmacy more than a chain pharmacy and to have greater medication adherence when doing so. Establishing the differences in service provision between types of pharmacies and why people choose a pharmacy to frequent should be a focus of future research. |
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spelling | pubmed-96071082022-10-28 A Systematic Review of Independent and Chain Pharmacies Effects on Medication Adherence Nind, James Smith, Alesha Scahill, Shane Marra, Carlo A. Pharmacy (Basel) Review As the last step in the care pathway, pharmacies can significantly impact a patient’s medication adherence and the success of treatment. The potential impact of patient’s pharmacy choice on their medication adherence has yet to be established. This study aims to review the impact a pharmacies ownership model, either independent or chain, has on its users’ medication adherence. As a generalisation, independent pharmacies offer a more personal service and chain pharmacies offer medications at lower prices. A keyword search of EMBASE and MEDLINE databases in March 2022 identified 410 studies, of which 5 were deemed to meet our inclusion criteria. The studies mostly took place in North America, measured medication adherence using pharmacy records over a 12-month period. This review was unable to substantiate a difference in the rate of medication adherence between the users of independent and chain pharmacies. However, those with a lower income, greater medication burden, and increased age appeared to use an independent pharmacy more than a chain pharmacy and to have greater medication adherence when doing so. Establishing the differences in service provision between types of pharmacies and why people choose a pharmacy to frequent should be a focus of future research. MDPI 2022-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9607108/ /pubmed/36287445 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy10050124 Text en © 2022 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 | Review Nind, James Smith, Alesha Scahill, Shane Marra, Carlo A. A Systematic Review of Independent and Chain Pharmacies Effects on Medication Adherence |
title | A Systematic Review of Independent and Chain Pharmacies Effects on Medication Adherence |
title_full | A Systematic Review of Independent and Chain Pharmacies Effects on Medication Adherence |
title_fullStr | A Systematic Review of Independent and Chain Pharmacies Effects on Medication Adherence |
title_full_unstemmed | A Systematic Review of Independent and Chain Pharmacies Effects on Medication Adherence |
title_short | A Systematic Review of Independent and Chain Pharmacies Effects on Medication Adherence |
title_sort | systematic review of independent and chain pharmacies effects on medication adherence |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9607108/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36287445 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy10050124 |
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