- 著者
- Hyerim Park Akiko Miki Hiroki Satoh Yasufumi Sawada
- 出版者
- Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
- 雑誌
- Iyakuhin Johogaku (ISSN:13451464)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.19, no.3, pp.133-141, 2017-11-30 (Released:2017-12-27)
- 参考文献数
- 19
Objective: An aging population results in an increased number of people in need of long-term care. Despite the role of care staff in supporting sufficient medication use, and medication risk management being important in long-term care, attitudes and concerns regarding medication assistance among nursing home staff are unclear. The study aimed to survey fee-based elderly nursing homes staff attitudes and concerns about supporting medication use and drug information.Methods: The questionnaire was designed to survey the attitudes, concerns, and knowledge of the support of residents' medication use by fee-based elderly nursing homes staff. In August 2012, the questionnaire was distributed to 360 staff in 12 fee-based elderly nursing homes in Japan.Results: A total of 201 responses (from 44 nursing staff and 157 care workers) were used in the analysis; 59.1% of nursing staff and 87.9% of care workers were anxious about the lack of basic medication knowledge, and 15.9% of nursing staff and 76.4% of care workers felt anxious that they could not answer residents' questions about medication. Regarding the frequency of behaviors for obtaining drug information, few staff usually ask physicians (17.2%) or pharmacists (24.0%) for information.Conclusion: Many fee-based elderly nursing homes staff were concerned about supporting medication use without knowledge of the medications that elderly residents are taking in fee-based elderly nursing homes. The findings suggest that fee-based elderly nursing homes staff wanted to obtain basic drug information to support safe medication use. It is important to relieve their concerns by providing basic education programs and strengthening collaboration with other health professionals to improve the quality of care involving medication.
- 著者
- Kei Kikuchi Akiko Miki Hiroki Satoh Noriko Iba Rika Sato-Sakuma Hirokuni Beppu Yasufumi Sawada
- 出版者
- International Research and Cooperation Association for Bio & Socio-Sciences Advancement
- 雑誌
- Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics (ISSN:18817831)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.13, no.4, pp.183-188, 2019-08-31 (Released:2019-09-18)
- 参考文献数
- 13
Patient narratives of adverse drug events (ADEs) often differ from the symptoms listed on the package inserts of pharmaceutical products using common ADE terminology and could be a source of great comfort to patients with the same disease. To explore this idea, we analyzed written narratives obtained from 48 patients with breast cancer using the NPO Corporation Database of Individual Patients' Experiences, Japan (DIPEx-Japan). Our analysis aimed to determine the utility of an "Adverse Drug Event Database" for use in clinical settings as a novel source of disease information in patients' own words. An analysis of transcripts from 29 patients, in which they recounted their treatment drugs and the time of onset and duration of ADEs in great detail, revealed several discrepancies between the language they used to describe various side effects and the standard ADE terminology on package inserts. We conclude that the language used to describe ADEs on package inserts is insufficient for helping patients as they struggle to recognize, internalize, and overcome ADEs, and argue the need for available, detailed information in the words of real patients about the nature of the ADEs predicted, as well as their clinical course and duration. Such information would be invaluable in supplementing the standardized language used on package inserts. Databases of patients' narrative accounts of ADEs are needed as information sources that can be reliably disseminated among patients.