ArticleThe Gerontologist2014
Safeguarding older adults from inappropriate over-the-counter medications: the role of community pharmacists.
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- Elevating Safe Use of Over-The-Counter Medications in Older Adults: A Narrative Review of Pharmacy Involved Interventions and Recommendations for Improvement.Drugs & aging · 2023Review
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- The Use of Over-the-Counter Sleep Aid Containing Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride Among Saudis.Cureus · 2021Article
- A pharmacy-based intervention to improve safe over-the-counter medication use in older adults.Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP · 2021Article
- Understanding the Factors Influencing Older Adults' Decision-Making about Their Use of Over-The-Counter Medications-A Scenario-Based Approach.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Improving Patient-Pharmacist Encounters with Over-The-Counter Medications: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study.Innovations in pharmacy · 2020Article
- Applying participatory design to a pharmacy system intervention.Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP · 2019Article
- Managing sleep problems using non-prescription medications and the role of community pharmacists: older adults' perspectives.The International journal of pharmacy practice · 2017Article
- Over-the-counter medications containing diphenhydramine and doxylamine used by older adults to improve sleep.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2017Article
- Role of the pharmacist in reducing healthcare costs: current insights.Integrated pharmacy research & practice · 2017Review
- Promoting safe and effective use of OTC medications: CHPA-GSA National Summit.The Gerontologist · 2014Article
- A digital health kiosk is acceptable, usable, and improves decisions about high-risk over-the-counter medications when used by older adults: Results of formative user testing.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
- Exploring how pharmacists engage with patients about over-the-counter medications.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
- Improving over-the-counter medication safety for older adults: A study protocol for a demonstration and dissemination study.Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAPArticle
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Abstract
purpose of the studyTo elicit the thought process or mental model that community pharmacists use when making recommendations on over-the-counter (OTC) medications to older adults and to elicit the current practices of community pharmacists in providing information, advice, and counseling to older adults about potentially inappropriate OTC medications. DESIGN AND
methodsThree separate focus groups with pharmacists were conducted with 5 to 8 pharmacists per group. A vignette about an elderly woman seeking an OTC sleep aid was used to elicit information that pharmacists seek to establish when making a recommendation. Focus groups were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed for themes using the initial and focused coding methods of grounded theory.
resultsCommunity pharmacists' mental models were characterized by 2 similarities: a similarity in what community pharmacists seek to establish about patients and a similarity in when community pharmacists seek to establish it--the sequence in which they try to learn key details about patients. It was identified that pharmacists gather specific information about the patient's medication profile, health conditions, characteristics of the problem, and past treatments in order to make a recommendation. Community pharmacists recommended behavioral modifications and seeing their physician prior to recommending an OTC sleep aid, primarily due to medication safety concerns. IMPLICATIONS: Pharmacists can play a key role in assisting older adults to select and use OTC medications.
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