FEP13 PHARMACOTHERAPEUTIC FOLLOW-UP OF POLYMEDICATED PATIENTS AT TWO PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTERS OF THE 'SERVICIO EXTREMENO DE SALUD': A MULTTDISCIPLINARY AND PROSPECTIVE LONGITUDINAL STUDY

摘要

Objectives: 1) To identify medicine-related problems (MRP) and quantify those that might have been prevented and treated; 2) To increase adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting and quality of the evaluation.Setting and Method: This is an uncontrolled prospective longitudinal study involving two primary health care centers of the "servicio extremerio de salud". During the period 2004-09-27 to 2005-03-30, pharmacotherapeutic follow-up was aimed through a personal survey to all polymedicated (inclusion criteria: intake of at least 5 or more drugs) patients. A simple randomized sampling was carried out from the overall sample, N=1447 (year 2003). The sample size was calculated for a prevalence of 0.5 (P=Q=50%), 10% of relative error (5% absolute error) and a confidence level of 95% (alpha set at 0.05). According to this, prevalence (%), mean and confidence interval (95%) was calculated. Student-t test was used to analyze mean differences.