The role of community pharmacists in improving medication adherence: implementation of a dose administration aids service in a group of community pharmacies in portugal

• In: Posters: Community Pharmacy: Access to pharmacists and pharmacy services
• At: Bangkok (Thailand) (2014)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-CPS047
• By: MENDES, Maria (Farmácias Holon, Lisboa, Portugal)
• Co-author(s): Paulino, Ema (Farmácias Holon, Lisboa, Portugal)
  Filipe, Pedro (Farmácias Holon, Lisboa, Portugal)
  Rosa, Mariana (Farmácias Holon, Lisboa, Portugal)
  Pinto, Ana (Farmácias Holon, Lisboa, Portugal)
  
• Abstract:

  I. Background: Poor adherence of patients to their treatment is one of the main causes for unsatisfactory clinical outcomes. Given the higher prevalence of diseases in elderly people, it is quite common to identify individuals taking several medications and being non-adherent to their prescribed medication. Reasons provided by elderly people for..

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