EVALUATION OF A COMPUTER-ASSISTED MEDICATION REFILL REMINDER SYSTEM IN IMPROVING PATIENT COMPLIANCE
| dc.contributor.advisor | Blackburn, J.L. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Thompson, Mark | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Brown, M. A. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Wallace, S.M. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Scissons, E. | |
| dc.creator | Heard, Colin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-07T16:38:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-07T16:38:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1982-06 | |
| dc.date.submitted | June 1982 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Patient compliance continues to be an area of concern for health professionals, and an important topic of discussion in current literature. The rate of adherence to treatment regimens, measured over the long-term, is reported to be as low as 30 percent for some conditions such as hyper- tension (Liston, 1981). Strategies for improving compliance are needed which could be implemented at the community pharmacy level. They should be cost effect—ive for the pharmacy, therapeutically beneficial to the patient, and psychologically acceptable to both pharmacist and patient. Computer systems located in retail pharmacies may provide the time and assist-ance necessary to permit pharmacists to enhance clinical services aimed at improving compliance. The error of omission occurs frequently amongst chronic care patients. One of the main problems in the control of diseases such as hypertension is to convince patients to continue with prescribed therapy (Finnerty et al., 1973, I). In this study, a computer-assisted prescription refill reminder system was implemented in a community pharmacy to determine whether a reminder letter, received by patients a maximum of five days prior to a calculated refill-due date, would be a cost-effective means of solving these problems. For the study, compliance was defined as having a prescription filled or refilled on exactly the calculated due date, or within a time-frame designated as five days before to one day after this date. Results of a pilot study indicated the level of compliance amongst chronic care patients at the study pharmacy was less than 40 percent, and that 78 percent of those refills designed as non—compliant occurred more than 24 hours after the predicted refill date. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10388/15226 | |
| dc.subject | Patient compliance | en_US |
| dc.title | EVALUATION OF A COMPUTER-ASSISTED MEDICATION REFILL REMINDER SYSTEM IN IMPROVING PATIENT COMPLIANCE | en_US |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | Pharmacy | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Saskatchewan | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science (M.Sc.) | en_US |