Trial reportBMC family practice2021
Access to chronic medicines: patients' preferences for a last kilometre medicine delivery service in Cape Town, South Africa.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- SkipTheQ: Impact of a digital appointment system on waiting times and patient satisfaction at a tertiary hospital pharmacy in Gauteng province, South Africa.Dialogues in health · 2026Article
- Dispensation of outpatient hospital medicines by hospital only versus hospital-community pharmacies collaboration: a cross-sectional study and survey of patient's satisfaction.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Strategies that enabled access to chronic care during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond in South Africa.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2024Article
- Desires and Attitudes towards Telepharmacy Medicine Delivery.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Community-based medication delivery program for antihypertensive medications improves adherence and reduces blood pressure.PloS one · 2022Article
- Public Perceptions About Home Delivery of Medication Service and Factors Associated with the Utilization of This Service.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
- Demonstrating the feasibility of digital health to support pediatric patients in South Africa.Epilepsia open · 2021Observational
- Distribution of antiretroviral therapy through private pharmacies and postal courier services during COVID-19 in Botswana: acceptability and reach of two out-of-facility individual differentiated service delivery models.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundChronic patients are required to access their chronic medicines on a regular basis, often only to refill their repeat prescriptions. Adherence to chronic medicines is challenging and has stimulated health care providers to devise differentiated service delivery models of care to decentralise chronic medicine distribution to decrease the frequency of medicine collection at health care facilities. One such option includes a last kilometre medicine delivery service. This study investigated chronic patients' preferences for a last kilometre medicine delivery service model.
methodsAn exploratory non-randomised quantitative study was conducted over 4 weeks at four public sector primary health care facilities in Cape Town, South Africa. Data was collected on a structured questionnaire from chronic patients queuing to receive medication at each facility's pharmacy waiting area. Patient demographics were noted to align with preferences for chronic medicine service delivery characteristics including; mobile ordering, fee for service and location for delivery. Chi-square test and frequencies were employed to analyse data using SPSS version 23.
resultsA total of 116 patients participated in this study. Most were interested in a medicine delivery service (80.2%) and were willing to use a mobile application to order their medicines (84.5%). Almost all patients (96.8%) preferred that their medicines be delivered to their home. More than three quarters of participants were willing to pay for the service (77.6%). Chi-square test showed that gender, age group, employment status, distance to the health facility and /or average waiting time at the clinic significantly influenced the preference for certain characteristics of the medicine delivery service (p < 0.05).
conclusionMost participants were interested in a last kilometre medicine delivery service, especially those older than 45 years, waiting for more than 6 h at the facility, and staying within one kilometre radius of the clinic. More studies are needed to establish the influence of patients' employment status and the distance to health facility on interest in the medicine delivery service.
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