With increasing number of prescribed drugs it has been shown a decreasing compliance to drug treatment [1]. The purpose of this work was to find out what kind of printed instruction patients used to support their drug treatment. Patients were interviewed at pharmacies, to find out how knowledgeable they were about and how many that had received information about prior dispensed drugs from The Swedish National Pharmacy Register. Interviews with prescribers have also been made to find out if and how they use The Swedish National Pharmacy Register. It can be useful, since patients visit many different physicians, and there isn´t a national patient record. In the register are all drugs recorded that have been dispensed during the last 15 months. 167 patients in 8 pharmacies participated in the study. 55 percent use a prescription list generated in the pharmacy from electronic transferred prescriptions. 13 percent of the patients used a list of drugs given to them at the by their physician. This list is generated from the patient record Only 2 percent of the patients interviewed use the drug list generated from The Swedish National Pharmacy Register as a source of information of witch drugs to use. The list of drugs, printed from the patient record and handed over by the physician ought to be the preferred list. A list to review the current drug treatment. More study is needed to answer the question why as low as 13 percent use the drug list. Information on all dispensed drugs from The Swedish National Pharmacy Register during the last 15 months is useful for physicians, since it´s the only source that gives the complete picture of the patients drug consumption. It can be useful for avoiding drug interactions, overconsumption of narcotic drugs, and improper drug utilization. The results from the interviews with the prescribers are based on responses from one out of five prescribers who had knowledge about the above list. The other four prescribers who participated in the telephone interviews, no one had knowledge about this drug list. More studies are needed to draw any conclusions. It seems that information is needed to prescribers about the drug list and its usefulness.

Bakgrund: Att varje patient har en god kännedom om sin läkemedelsbehandling leder till en minskad risk för felmedicinering, bättre livskvalitet på individnivå samt till att stora samhällskostnader reduceras[1]. Det finns flera olika informationsunderlag som patienter kan använda sig av för att hålla ordning på sin ordinerade läkemedelsbehandling. Dessa underlag innehåller information om förskrivna läkemedel. Dock är inget informationsunderlag heltäckande och informationen kan ibland vara inaktuell vilket kan bli problematiskt för patienten och leda till att aktuell ordination inte följs[19]. Syfte: Syftet med detta examensarbete var att genom strukturerade intervjuer på apotek undersöka vilket underlag kunder med minst fem eller fler receptordinerade läkemedel använder för att hålla ordning på sin aktuella läkemedelsbehandling. Hur många kunder som kände till och hur ofta de på apotek fått en utskrift av receptlistan ”Mina sparade recept på apoteket”. Hur många kunder som kände till och hur ofta de via personlig inloggning på internet granskat sin receptlista. Metod: Studien är en uppföljning av ”Patients’ information on their prescribed current treatment” som genomfördes år 2012[25].Strukturerade intervjuer med läkemedelsavstämningar genomfördes på 8 olika apotek i Sverige. Totalt inkluderade 167 apotekskunder. Resultat: Studien visade att 55% använde sig av utskriften av receptlistan ”Mina sparade recept på apoteket”, 39% använde sig av läkemedelsförpackningarna med apoteksetiketter med doseringsanvisning, 13% uppgav att de använde läkemedelslistan och 8% uppgav att de använde sig utav personlig inloggning med e-legitimation (receptlistan). Studien visar att en stor andel apotekskunder inte använder nödvändiga informationsunderlag som behövs för en säker läkemedelsanvändning. Slutsats: För att en patient ska kunna sköta sin läkemedelsbehandling på ett optimalt sätt krävs det att kunskap finns om vilka skriftliga underlag som finns att tillgå, vad de innefattar samt dess begränsningar. / Background If patients have access to an adequate and updated list of prescribed drugs it will lead to reduced risk of medication error and thus to better quality of life at the individual level, as well as reduced public spending for medical care. In drug treatment, patient compliance is extremely important, as incorrect medical use can lead to severe consequences. For patients prescribed long-term treatment with drugs, compliance is estimated to be only 50% [1]. There are several different sources patients can utilize to keep updated with their prescribed drugs; The Medication List (ML) from the physicians’ electronic medical record[14]. The Prescription List (PL) with all prescriptions stored in the Swedish National Prescription Repository (NPR) accessible from any pharmacy in Sweden [19]. The Pharmacy Record List (PR) of the purchases on prescriptions made over the past 15-month period[15]. Paper prescriptions[20]. The pharmacy packaging labels[11]. Patients may also access their PL over the internet. Objective The purpose of the study was to investigate, via questionnaire interviews in pharmacies, what sources of information customers used to keep updated in their prescribed drugs. Patients with at least five or more prescription drugs (data from the NPR) were included in the survey. It was also investigated how many customers that had knowledge of and had received a printout of the PL "My stored prescription at the pharmacy" at visits in the pharmacies. It was also investigated to what extent customers had visited a public website, through personal login, to take part of their PL, and how often. Methods This survey is a follow-up of another study "Patients' information on their prescribed current treatment" published in 2012 [25]. In this study customers were recruited from 8 different pharmacies in Sweden. Customers where asked to answer questions from a questionnaire and a drug reconciliation was done. A total of 167 customers, with at least five prescribed drugs, were included. Key findings The majority, 55%, stated that they used the PL printout "My stored prescription at the pharmacy". 39% relied on instructions given on the of drug packages and the pharmacy labels with dosage instructions. 13% of the customers reported that they used the ML handed over from their physician. 8% stated that they used the website via personal login with e-ID to get to the PL ”My stored prescription at the pharmacy”. Conclusion On March 1, 2018, the government decided on the draft bill for a national pharmaceutical list. The list should provide a complete and up-to-date picture of the individual patient's drugs, regardless of who prescribed the drug and where in the country this occurred[19]. Thus, modernity development should lead to a reduced necessity of using several different sources for prescribed drugs, which can hopefully reduce the risk of errors in drug use and increase the overall patient safety.