Atika wahyu Puspitasari

• University of Indonesia

Oral chemotherapy poses challenges regarding patient medication adherence. Pharmacists play a vital role in supporting medication adherence to achieve the effectiveness of therapy. This review aimed to evaluate the impact of pharmacist interventions on medication adherence in patients with cancer taking capecitabine. The literature was systematical...

Background: Oral chemotherapy had significantly increased last decades. As home-based administration, it is facing a challenge to ensure patient medication adherence. A digital intervention provides innovative solutions to address the adherence barrier. Therefore, we propose systematically reviewing digital interventions designed to enhance adheren...

Background: The increasing use of oral chemotherapy recently faces new challenges in treatment adherence. This systematic review aimed to assess rates and influencing factors of adherence to capecitabine in cancer patients. Methods: A Systematic review was conducted on online databases at PubMed, Scopus, Sage, and Science direct. A combination of r...

Objective: The abnormally high use of antibiotics can indicate irrational prescribing. One of the ways by which to support rationally prescribingantibiotics is by evaluating their frequency of use. This study aimed to evaluate the use of antibiotics in 2018 by outpatients at the Kebayoran BaruPrimary Health Care of Indonesia.Methods: The study was...

Objective: Acute respiratory tract infection (ARTI) is common and has the highest death rate in children, especially in growing countries such asIndonesia. The aim of the research is to identify drug-related problems (DRPs) in pediatric ARTI patients based on the DRP classification by Cipolle,Strand, and Morley, which included categories such as un...

Objective: Tuberculosis (TB) is a highly prevalent infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The recommended TB treatment is acombination of various antibiotics in the form of a fixed-dose combination tablet or kombipak; however, this increases the prevalence of drug-relatedproblems. Therefore, this study aimed to identify drug-relat...

Objective: This study aimed to monitor the side effects of patients who received antiretroviral medications in a subdistrict of West Jakarta in 2017.Methods: Descriptive research was performed using data collected prospectively from patients who met our inclusion criteria (total sampling).Primary data were obtained from interviews, and secondary da...

Objectives: Hypertension is a common disease around the world. Depending on the severity or the presence of other diseases, whether related or unrelated, additional drug therapy may be required to optimize treatment and to reduce the side effects of drugs. The use of drugs in large amounts may increase the risk of drug interactions. The purpose of...

Introduction: The high prevalence of Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) in Indonesia can increase anti-infective use and affect their patterns of use. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate anti-infective use in 2015 at 3 primary health care centres, Limo Primary Health Care (LPHC), Bojongsari Primary Health Care (BPHC), and Cipayung Primary Health...