Emilio García-Jiménez

University of Granada | UGR · Pharmaceutical Care Research Group

Background: In health care, quality-of-life surveys and questionnaires related to care are becoming increasingly important as a measure of its quality. There is currently no Spanish version of the URAM scale, which makes it suitable for hand pathology.The purposes of this study were to develop a Spanish version of the URAM and perform a transcultur...

Background The URAM (Unité Rhumatologique des Affections de la Main) scale is a patient-reported functional outcome measurement tool validated for exclusive use in Dupuytren contracture (DC) a condition in which one or more fingers become permanently bent in a flexed position. The current study´s purposes were to evaluate: How sensitive and specifi...

Principales cascadas de prescripción observadas en un grupo de población mayor de 65 años

Cascada de prescripción entre omeprazol y cianocobalamina. Es sabido que el uso prolongado de omepazol produce un déficit de vitamina B12, al basificar el medio en el estómago y no producirse la unión con el factor intrínseco. Esto produce dos efectos, por una parte una anemia megaloblástica, que muchas veces tratándola con ácido fólico, desaparece...

Background: Dupuytren's Disease (DD) is a fibro-proliferative disease which affects the hands and can produce progressive and irreversible flexion contractures. Collagenase Clostridium histolyticum (CCH) is a minimally-invasive treatment option for it. Hand function and patient´s satisfaction were commonly measured by the Disabilities of the Arm, S...

Resumen Introducción y objetivos El objetivo es cuantificar la validez diagnóstica de la medida de la presión arterial en farmacia comunitaria (PAFC) y establecer los puntos de corte de la presión arterial sistólica (PAS) y de la presión arterial diastólica (PAD) que maximicen la citada validez, usando como patrón de oro la monitorización ambulato...

Análisis del consumo simultáneo de medicamentos y plantas medicinales en población española mayor de 65 años Appropriate or inappropriate use of simultaneous consumption of drugs and preparations of medicinal plants that makes the 65-year-old population in Spain.

Objetivos: Determinar la fiabilidad test-retest de un cuestionario, con validación preliminar, para valorar el conocimiento sobre riesgo cardiovascular (RCV) y enfermedad cardiovascular, en pacientes atendidos en farmacias comunitarias de España. Complementar la validez externa, estableciendo la relación entre una actividad educativa y el aumento d...

To compare health education (HE) and drug therapy monitoring (DTM) interventions in patients with cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF).

Objetivo: Comparar las intervenciones farmacéuticas de educación sanitaria (ES) y seguimiento farmacoterapéutico (SFT) en pacientes con factores de riesgo cardiovascular (FRCV). Diseño: Estudio experimental aleatorizado. Emplazamiento: Farmacia Playa-Miramar (Valencia). Marzo del 2010-noviembre del 2011. Participantes: Pacientes con uno o más FRCV,...

Objetivo: Analizar los efectos de los servicios de educación sanitaria (ES) y seguimiento farmacoterapéutico (SFT) sobre los factores de riesgo cardiovascular (FRCV) modificables y RCV (SCORE) de pacientes que acuden a una farmacia comunitaria, así como el grado de fidelización y satisfacción de los pacientes hacia los servicios ofrecidos. Materia...

Non-adherence to drug treatment is a problem related to the process of using medicines. If this problem is not solved, it can give room for negative results associated with medication. It is necessary to apply some measures and strategies to correct this fact. The aim of this study is to identify the aid strategies to treatment compliance. These st...

Aim of this study: The aim of this study is to calculate smoking prevalence among first, third and fifth-year pharmacy students in Spain, and to describe their attitude towards giving up smoking. Methods: Cross-sectional multi-center study using an ad hoc self-administered questionnaire in first, third and fifth-year pharmacy students at seven S...

The present study was designed to evaluate the effect of pharmacotherapy follow-up (PFU) on blood pressure (BP) readings, total cholesterol (TC) levels and cardiovascular risk (CVR) in patients with hypertension and/or hypercholesterolemia, at community pharmacies in Spain. The study was carried out in 18 community pharmacies in Spain with 6 months...

Admission to an emergency department (ED) is a key vulnerable moment when patients are at increased risk of medication discrepancies and medication histories are an effective way of ensuring that fewer errors are made. This study measured whether a pharmacist-acquired medication history in an ED focusing on a patient's current home medication regim...

No pharmacogenetic studies have yet been conducted in community pharmacies, despite pharmacogenetics being an emerging discipline. Pharmacotherapeutic follow-up (PFU) was performed for 6 months in 37 patients receiving antihypertensive treatment, and they were genotyped for variant alleles *2 and *3 in the CYP2C9 gene and *1B in CYP3A4. Systolic bl...

The dispensing process is the professional service provided by the pharmacist aimed at ensuring, following an individual assessment, that patients receive and use their medication in a way appropriate to their clinical needs, in the exact doses according to their individual requirements, for the right period of time, with information on their corre...

Although some studies have demonstrated that pharmacist intervention can improve drug therapy among patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), more evidence derived from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is needed, including assessment of the effect of community pharmacist interventions in patients with CVD. To assess the effectiveness of the Da...

Aim: Students generally do not recognize the snuff as a major cause of disease, so it is to study the knowledge of tobacco and methods of smoking cessation student's 1 st, 3 rd and 5 th year of the undergraduate of Pharmacy in Spain. Patients and methods: Cross-sectional observational multicenter study with an analytical component developed through...

Introduction: Some authors have pointed out more than 200 factors and variables related to the breach, to be taken into account if it is to change it. Objective: To identify sociodemographic and clinical characteristics associated with pharmacological treatment adherence in outpatients with cardiovascular risk. Methodology: Patients who met the inc...

Objective To evaluate the effect of pharmacist involvement, by means of Pharmacotherapy Follow-Up (PFU) in the improvement of medication adherence and therapeutic outcomes.DesignAn experimental, controlled, and randomised clinical study comparing a PFU program with the routine process in Spanish community pharmacies improved with health education d...

Introduction: Antihypertensive drugs are principally metabolised by enzymes of the P450 (CYP450) cytochrome family. Response to hypertensive treatment whose genetic basis is beginning to be known presents inter-individual differences among patients. Objective: The aim of this review is to document the role of cytochrome enzymes P450 in the metab...

Introduction: The INR expresses the result of the determination of prothrombin time. Therefore, it offers the result of the anticoagulation control that all anticoagulated patients should undergo. Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate the influence of the use of oral antiplatelet therapies on the value of the INR in patients with a...

To evaluate the effect of pharmacist involvement, by means of Pharmacotherapy Follow-Up (PFU) in the improvement of medication adherence and therapeutic outcomes. An experimental, controlled, and randomised clinical study comparing a PFU program with the routine process in Spanish community pharmacies improved with health education during 8 months....

Antihypertensive drugs are principally metabolised by enzymes of the P450 (CYP450) cytochrome family. Response to hypertensive treatment whose genetic basis is beginning to be known presents inter-individual differences among patients. The aim of this review is to document the role of cytochrome enzymes P450 in the metabolising process of antihyper...

Non-adherence to the drug therapy may cause therapeutic failure. In patients treated with antiplatelet drugs, non-adherence increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases. It would be important to quantify and to improve their compliance. Objectives: Check the pharmacotherapy compliance of the antiplatelet therapy of patients that go to rural drugst...

OBJETIVO Analizar el efecto del seguimiento farmacoterapéutico (SFT) en la optimización de la farmacoterapia de pacientes hipertensos no controlados para la adecuación de los valores de presión arterial (PA) a su situación clínica.0 MÉTODO Estudio cuasi-experimental, monocéntrico, antes-después, sin grupo control de dos años de duración realizado e...

Background: throughout the year 2007 in Spain, 50 million medicines of the group of proton pump inhibitors were sold, which according to data from the IMS1 is 26% more than in the year 2006. The consumption of these proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in the Spanish National Health System is high, and is growing steadily. In principle, the high prevalenc...

The objectives of this work consisted of discussing the methods used to assess therapeutic non-compliance, which can also be used by community pharmacies to assess adherence. A bibliographic review was performed in the Medline databases (PubMed), and in the references of relevant articles, in order to obtain published studies on non-compliance. The...

Objective: to identify the hazards and critical control points in the operational processes of pharmacies with the aim of improving the quality of care. Material and methods: the pharmacies of Murcia were analysed and actions were defined in accordance with international standard UNE-EN-ISO 9001:2000. After defining the organisational structure of...

Introduction: It is important to know very well each day how one can use a hormonal contraceptive agent due to the introducing of some new contraceptive methods and new pharmaceutical forms of administration, and how one can react when it comes to the appearance of some secondary effects. Objective: To assess the degree of knowledge among the femal...

El incumplimiento del tratamiento farmacológico es la causa del fracaso de muchos tratamientos y conlleva serios problemas en calidad de vida, costes para el sistema de salud y, sobre todo, contribuye a que no se consigan resultados clínicos positivos. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) considera la falta de cumplimiento de los tratamientos...

Background: non-adherence continues being an issue of discussion in Pharmaceutical Care, due to the fact that some researches consider non-adherence as a drug related problem (DRPs) and others ones as cause of Negative Outcomes Associated with Medication (NOMs). Thus, we believe that is import to add elements to this discussion, from the perspectiv...

Objetivo: Determinar si los pacientes que acuden a una oficina de farmacia de Granada incumplen el tratamiento terapéutico e identificar su causa. Diseño: Estudio descriptivo, observacional, transversal. Emplazamiento: Farmacia comunitaria de Granada. Participantes: Pacientes mayores de 12 años y sin ninguna dificultad cognitiva, que acudieron a la...

Objetivo Determinar si los pacientes que acuden a una oficina de farmacia de Granada incumplen el tratamiento terapéutico e identificar su causa. Diseño Estudio descriptivo, observacional, transversal. Emplazamiento Farmacia comunitaria de Granada. Participantes Pacientes mayores de 12 años y sin ninguna dificultad cognitiva, que acudieron a la...

Cartas al Director Farm Hosp. 2008;32(1):53-61 57 y comportamientos del paciente, las decisiones médicas toma-das en respuesta a las intervenciones realizadas, así como la evolución del estado de salud del paciente tras las mismas. • Consentimiento informado, informes al médico y a otros pro-fesionales de la salud. • Datos de contacto del paciente....

Objective: To adapt and validate the "Assessment of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy Questionnary" "Cuestionario para evaluar la adhesión al tratamiento antirretroviral" (CEAT-VIH) for use in Peru, in HIV-infected patients in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Method: Understanding of the questionnaire was evaluated as well as its psy...

Objectives: To describe the main errors committed by the pharmacists in the evaluation of three clinical cases put forward according to the Dáder Method and to determine the relationship between the evaluation of a clinical case and the student's profile, as well as other variables considered. Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study. The s...

Background: Pharmacists can play an important role in both the detection of asthma and its monitoring in patients with asthma. Objective: To assess the change in asthma knowledge, and associated variables, of pharmacists attending the "Pharmacotherapy follow- up of Adult Bronchial Asthma" workshops run by the Pharmaceutical Care Center of Stada...

Background: Pharmacists can play an important role in both the detection of asthma and its monitoring in patients with asthma. Objective: To assess the change in asthma knowledge, and associated variables, of pharmacists attending the “Pharmacotherapy follow-up of Adult Bronchial Asthma” workshops run by the Pharmaceutical Care Center of Stada Labo...

Adherence to pharmacotherapy constitutes an important problem that can affect the necessity, effectiveness and safety of the medication that the patient takes. Non-adherence to pharmacotherapy is a variable of the patient assistance process and it can be a DTP cause. Objectives: To know the non-adherence degree of patients in pharmacotherapy follow...

To improve health related quality of life (HRQoL) is a main objective of pharmaceutical care. The aim of the present study was to identify the knowledge, attitude and performance of community pharmacists on the assessment and the use of HRQoL tools. The study was an observational based on an emailed survey during March to May 2005. A questionnaire...

To improve health related quality of life (HRQoL) is a main objective of pharmaceutical care. The aim of the present study was to identify the knowledge, attitude and performance of community pharmacists on the assessment and the use of HRQoL tools. The study was an observational based on an emailed survey during March to May 2005. A questionnaire...

Pharmacist and patient should cooperate to improve drug use. This participation should be empowered through good process training. Pharmacist-patient relationship is basic and it should be based on efficacy, empathy and outcome achievement. The objective of the present study is to evaluate knowledge and satisfaction of patients included in the Dade...

Farmacéutico y paciente deben colaborar para mejorar el uso de los medicamentos. Se debe potenciar esta participación con una buena enseñanza del proceso. La relación Farmacéutico-Paciente es fundamental, debe ser de confianza, basada en la eficacia y la empatía y la obtención de resultados. El objetivo del trabajo es valorar el conocimiento y la s...

In this study the initial results of the implementing of drug-therapy follow-up (Dáder Program) in community pharmacies by the Aragon Official Pharmacists Association is analyzed. 14 informative courses have been carried out for 364 pharmacists and 101 have contributed with their results. The greatest number of pharmacist interventions were produce...

Introduction: It is important to know very well each day how one can use a hormonal contraceptive agent due to the introducing of some new contraceptive methods and new pharmaceutical forms of

Background: Pharmacists can play an important role in both the detection of asthma and its monitoring in patients with asthma. Objective: To assess the change in asthma knowledge, and associated variables, of pharmacists attending the "Pharmacotherapy follow- up of Adult Bronchial Asthma" workshops run by the Pharmaceutical Care Center of Stada Lab...

Una educación sexual sana es aquella que fomenta tanto la salud del individuo como la construcción de un modelo de comportamiento integral que aporte equilibrio personal, habilidades comunicativas, placer y un buen desarrollo de la afectividad. El problema de la sexualidad en los adolescentes no es que estos sean sexualmente activos, sino que no cu...