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Over the last two decades, pharmacogenetics and pharmacokinetics have been increasingly used in clinical practice in Psychiatry due to the high variability regarding response and side effects of antipsychotic drugs. Specifically, long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotics have different pharmacokinetic profile than oral formulations due to their s...
Background and importance
Long acting injectable antipsychotics have emerged to improve adherence and reduce the risk of relapse in patients with psychiatric disorders.
Aim and objectives
The aim was to evaluate the maintenance rate of long acting injectable antipsychotics in real life.
Material and methods
A retrospective observational study was...
COST-MINIMISATION ANALYSIS OF SECOND GENERATION LONG ACTING INjECTABLES (RISPERIDONE, PALIPERIDONE, AND ARIPIPRAZOLE) FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA IN SPAIN MEDIUM-LONG TERM CARE PSYCHIATRIC UNITS
Echarri Eduardo, Martinez Ana Isabel Gutierrez Felicitas, De Sancho Isabe,l Lopez Elena Provencio Arranz, Rosa ,María Gonzalez Hernandez, Pilar Carrillo Acevedo, L...
BACKGROUND: The erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) are commonly used in the management of anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to identify the parameters that make it necessary to use ESAs in patients with chronic kidney disease in peritoneal dialysis program.
METHODS: A cross-sectional study of...
La enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) es un problema de salud mundial que afecta aproximadamente al 10% de la población. La anemia suele asociarse a esta patología y aparece en estadios precoces de la enfermedad. Los agentes estimulantes de la eritropoyesis (AEEs) son utilizados habitualmente en el manejo de la anemia en pacientes con ERC. La correcció...
Background Side effects produced by drugs are an emergent problem in developed countries, with major consequences for health assistance and economy. Polymedication produces important interactions which sometimes have relevant clinical repercussions.
Purpose The aim of this present study was to describe the current use of antipsychotic drugs in chro...
Background
“Assessment of Registrar Pharmacist Competency in Hospital Pharmacy” was published recently.
Purpose
To demonstrate the ability of Spanish pharmacy registrars with the current document “Assessment of Registrar Pharmacist Competency in Hospital Pharmacy (ARCPH)” to carry out the overall management of a Pharmacy Department after completin...
Background Iatrogenic long QT syndrome is an adverse effect commonly described in psychiatry.
Purpose To correlate real observations from clinical practice with the predictions.
Materials and methods A prospective study was performed analysing patients admitted to the psychiatric ward over two months. Exclusion criteria were: patients suffering f...
Background and objective: The main objective is to find the incidenceof resistance of Erythropoiesis Stimulant Agents (ESA) and explore the underlying causes in the population submitted to peritonealdialysis in a tertiary universitary hospital.
Material and method: This is a transversal study of 53 patients with chronic renal disease. Inclusion cr...
Background Calciphylaxis is a rare and potentially life-threatening condition. It is thought to result from arterial calcification causing complete vascular occlusion and subsequent cutaneous infarction. Most often, it is a complication of end-stage renal failure or hyperparathyroidism. This condition may be present in up to 4% of end-stage renal d...
Background and objectives:
Hypophosphoremia is a rare complicationin patients with renal failure on hemodialysis (HD). The HD solution do not contain any phosphorus and HD session may worsen the hypophosphoremia reaching levels \1 mg/dl, increasing the risk of causing hemolysis, respiratory failure, heart failure and even death.
Case description:...
Background Costs related to anaemia treatment in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients are still under discussion. Near 80% of CKD patients included in a peritoneal dialysis program receive erythropoietin stimulating agents for the anaemia treatment.
Purpose 80% of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients included in a peritoneal dialysis program rec...
Background The pharmacist is incorporated step by step to daily clinical activities at hospital. However, there is still a lack of uniformity both among the tasks assumed and also the way of performing these tasks.
Purpose The aim of this paper is to evaluate the profile for clinical pharmacy interventions at University Hospital environment.
Materi...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the economic and organisational consequences of the substitution of pamidronate with zoledronic acid in the adjunct treatment of bone metastasis in patients with breast cancer and multiple myeloma in a European context. A cost minimisation analysis was carried out. Clinical data were extracted from clinic...
To use a model of economic evaluation to analyse the efficiency of therapy with the antiepileptic drugs indicated in recently diagnosed partial and generalised epilepsy.
The treatment of partial epilepsy and generalised epilepsy in Spain was taken as the basis to design two flexible simulation models of the decision tree type. The time horizon of t...
