Jocelyne Moisan

..BACKGROUND; The link between experiencing difficulties in reading or understanding and non-compliance with drug treatment among seniors is not clearly established...

..Patterns of discontinuation of atypical antipsychotic drugs, including the return to therapy after an interruption, have not been examined longitudinally...

..As well, their acquisition cost differs. These differences may impact their cost-effectiveness...

..Pharmaceutical care programs have been shown to improve outcomes in hypertension. However, most programs required direct access to patient medical chart and patient consultation sessions by appointment...

..Recently, the SF-12, a shorter form of the SF-36, has been proposed. However, the validity of the SF-12 in hypertension has not yet been assessed...

..However, there is little evidence of their effectiveness. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of both a retrospective and a concurrent DUR programs on the quality of in-hospital prescribing...

..We sought to estimate the rate of initiation of insulin therapy among elderly patients using oral anti-diabetes drugs and to identify the factors associated with this initiation...

..We assessed persistence patterns with oral antidiabetes drug (OAD) in patients newly dispensed with different OAD classes...

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..Persistence and compliance are different aspects of the broader concept of adherence to drug treatment. In a prior study, determinants of nonpersistence in a group of patients newly prescribed antihypertensive medications were examined...

..Among those who persisted, concomitant use of other antipsychotics did not differ between olanzapine users and risperidone users...

..47 (1.23-1.76)]. CONCLUSIONS: Olanzapine seems to be associated with a higher risk of developing diabetes and/or dyslipidemia than risperidone. Further prospective studies are needed to rigorously assess the safety of olanzapine...

..This programme was developed to improve blood pressure control through activities aimed at improving the quality of prescribing and the adherence to treatment...

..Although many studies have examined adherence to antipsychotic treatment, they have generally suffered from lack of differentiation between persistence and compliance as 2 separate components of adherence...

..74; 95% CI 0.55-0.99). Persistence with newly prescribed medications could be improved by selecting antihypertensive medications containing fewer side effects and by lifting economic barriers to drug treatment...

..They may opt for expressing their psychological suffering as a physical symptom such as sleeping problems...

..To assess the level of agreement between a self-reported measure of adherence with prescribed drug and a measure of adherence based on pharmacy data...

..The risk was of comparable magnitude to that observed for age and sedentary behavior. Men and women with low levels of social support at work appeared to be at higher risk for increases in blood pressure...

..17 to 1.36) were associated with DM. Conclusion: These results suggest that metabolic parameters of people exposed to antipsychotics should be monitored, irrespective of the drug taken, among the drugs available at the time of analysis...

..However, researchers have reported contradictory results. Moreover, little is known about which patient characteristics are associated with knowledge of a drug's purpose...

..When used properly, asthma drugs can reduce asthma-related morbidity and mortality...

..Among other things, the prescription of drugs under their INN is very low. These findings highlight the need to develop and implement programs that seek to improve the quality of drug prescriptions in Gabon...

..Factors associated with adherence to recommendations were breast-feeding exclusively, being older than 30 years, an annual family income of at least 60,000 dollars, and being a non-smoker. Few mothers followed all the recommendations...