Pharmaceutical care for asthma

Pharmaceutical care services for asthma patients: a controlled intervention study.

As asthma is associated with an enormous social, psychological, and economic burden, various patient education programs have been developed to improve outcomes, including quality of life. The authors evaluated the effectiveness of community pharmacy-based interventions on lung function, health-related quality of life, and self-management in asthma patients in a 12-month controlled intervention ...

Community pharmacy-based pharmaceutical care for asthma patients.

BACKGROUND Despite significant progress in asthma drug therapy in recent years, there has been no major change in asthma morbidity and mortality. It is still important to determine whether pharmaceutical care (PC) influences health outcomes. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of PC with regard to clinical, humanistic, and economic outcomes in adults with asthma. METHODS An intervention...

Effectiveness of a Pharmacist Intervention for Asthma Control Improvement Pharmaceutical Care for Asthma Control Improvement

[Communication skills for pharmaceutical care].

Effective communication skills facilitate accurate identifications of patient's problems, improvement of the level of patient's satisfaction with the care, and patient's adherence to treatment. Furthermore, a good relationship with patients based on adequate communication lessens patient's anxiety and depression. A patient has his or her own position in a society as a citizen, as a worker and a...

Evaluation of a hospital pharmacy-based pharmaceutical care services for asthma patients

OBJECTIVES To implement and assess hospital-based pharmaceutical care services for patients with asthma. METHODS A prospective, randomized, controlled study was conducted in Shaab teaching hospital, Khartoum, Sudan. Patients were allocated randomly either in the intervention group (60) or control group (40) patients. The drug therapy of asthma for the patients in the intervention group was re...