Composición y adecuación de los botiquines familiares de los pacientes inmovilizados

• Autores: Enrique Gavilán Moral, María Teresa Morales Suárez-Varela, José Antonio Hoyos Esteban, Ana María Pérez Suanes
• Localización: Atención Farmacéutica, ISSN 1139-7357, Vol. 7, Nº. 4, 2005, págs. 319-322
• Idioma: español
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  • Composition and adequacy of home medicine chests for immobilized patients
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  • Objectives: To know home medicine chests characteristics for the incapacitated population from the home visitation program. Method: Cross-sectional study undertaken in rural centers of primary care. Systematic sampling of immobilized patients, who were asked about sociodemographic data during home visitations, furthermore taking place a quantitative and qualitative checking of the medicine chests. Statistical descriptive analysis. Results: 159 homes were visited. The living room was the most selected site for placing the medicine chest (46.7%). 50.3% of patients discards drugs by primarily throwing them to the garbage (68.6%). A third of patients does not read the information leaflet, and another third does not understand them. 38.1% of families does not revise the medicine chests. The average number of containers per medicine chest was of 9.3 ± 5.5. The most used drugs by the immobilized patients were analgesics, cardiovascular drugs, antiulcerous drugs and tranquilizers. Conclusions: Immobilized patients store a large number of drugs in their medicine chests, often inappropriately, being necessary the establishment of a health education program