ReviewIntegrated pharmacy research & practice2017
Community pharmacy Medicines Use Review: current challenges.
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- Improved adherence with Medicines Use Review service in Slovenia: a randomized controlled trial.BMC health services research · 2021Trial
- Potential clinical impact of pharmaceutical interventions in an interprofessional medication management program.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2026Article
- Patient Engagement in Person-Centered Communication About Medication Adherence: Perspectives From Patients, Next of Kin, and Healthcare Professionals.Patient preference and adherence · 2026Article
- [Medicines use review service in community pharmacies: an open door to other clinical pharmacy services].Farmaceuticos comunitarios · 2025Article
- Attitudes and expectations toward medication review among community pharmacy customers in Germany: a cross-sectional study.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2025Article
- Advanced clinical services in community pharmacies: training challenges and real-world applications - a focus on Greek-speaking countries.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2025Article
- Implementation of medication review type 2a in community pharmacies: a longitudinal survey study.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- The role of community pharmacists in medicines optimisation for housebound people: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Advancing Pharmaceutical Care in Community Pharmacies in Poland: A Blueprint for Enhanced Patient Care Quality.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Patient experiences of their current asthma care and their views toward providing support for patients with asthma in community pharmacy: A Qualitative study.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2024Article
- Use of the BRANT-MERQS scoring table for the quality assessment of type 3 medication review in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and those with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Community Pharmacies in the Asian Countries of Developing Health System: Formation, Regulation, and Implication.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Medication use review: does it have a future and potential in Latvia? The opinion of pharmacists after the pilot project.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2023Article
- Clinical pharmacy services are reimbursed in Germany: challenges of real world implementation remain.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2023Article
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- Early implementation of the structured medication review in England: a qualitative study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2022Article
- Assessment of Pharmacists' Willingness to Conduct Medication Use Reviews in Poland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice.Journal of health organization and management · 2021Article
- Qualitative study of medication review in Flanders, Belgium among community pharmacists and general practitioners.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2021Article
- Medicines use review service in community pharmacies in Spain: REVISA project.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2021Article
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Abstract
With a growing aging population, the appropriate, effective, and safe use of medicines is a global health policy priority. One concern is patients' non-adherence to medicines, which is estimated to be up to 50%. Policymakers seek to reconfigure medicine management services and consider community pharmacy as especially well-placed to improve medicine use. In England and Wales, a commissioned medication review service called "Medicines Use Reviews (MURs)" was made available in through the National Health Service (NHS) in 2005. This involves a patient-pharmacist consultation to improve patients' knowledge and the use of medicines and to help reduce avoidable waste. However, over a decade since their introduction, questions remain over the extent to which the MUR policy has successfully been embedded in practice and translated into more effective use of medicines. The MUR intervention continues to hold many challenges ranging from poor public awareness and acceptance of MURs, organizational constraints, and issues over interprofessional collaboration. Many of these challenges are not exclusive to the MUR service, or even to the community pharmacy setting. Nevertheless, by identifying and exposing such challenges, an opportunity exists for policymakers and commissioners to seek to improve this service to patients. This narrative review explores the current challenges that face MURs. Damschroder et al's consolidated framework for implementation research is employed to help organize these challenges from patient and professional perspectives across multiple contexts. Over the past decade, MUR policy and practice has continued to evolve, being shaped by research, organizational and professional influences, and policy. Reforms to the service suggest that the MURs are becoming more responsive to patients' need and preferences. It is intended that this review will create impetus and scope for further debate, service reconfiguration, and ultimately service improvement.
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