Yes / Background: Non-adherence to secondary prevention medicines (SPMs) among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a challenge in clinical practice. This study attempted to identify actual and potential modifiable barriers to adherence that can be addressed in cardiology clinical practice. Methods: This was a cross-sectional, postal survey-based study of the medicines-taking experience of patients with CAD treated at a secondary/tertiary care centre. All participants had been on SPM for ≥3 months. Results: In total, 696 eligible patients were sent the survey and 503 responded (72.3%). The median age was 70 years, and 403 (80.1%) were male; the median number of individual daily doses of all medicines was 6. The rate of non-adherence to at least one SPM was 43.5% (n=219), but 53.3% of reported non-adherence was to only one SPM. Statins contributed to 66.7% and aspirin to 61.7% of overall non-adherence identified by the Single Question (SQ) tool. In 30.8% of non-adherent patients (n=65), this was at least partly intentional. Barriers included forgetfulness (84.9%; n=186), worry that medicines will do more harm than good (33.8%; n=74), feeling hassled about medicines taking (18.7%; n=41), feeling worse when taking medicines (14.2%; n=31) and not being convinced of the benefit of medicines (9.1%; n=20). In a multivariate analysis, modifiable factors associated with overall non-adherence included being prescribed aspirin (OR: 2.22; 95% CI: 1.18 to 4.17), having specific concern about SPM (OR: 1.12; 95% CI: 1.07 to 1.18) and issues with repeat prescriptions (OR: 2.48; 95% CI: 1.26 to 4.90). Different factors were often associated with intentional versus unintentional non-adherence. Conclusions: Using appropriate self-report tools, patients share actual and potential modifiable barriers to adherence that can be addressed in clinical practice. Non-adherence behaviour was selective. Most non-adherence was driven by forgetfulness, concern about the harm caused by SPM and practical barriers. / The study was partially funded by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Charitable Foundation.

Yes / Background: Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD) is a participatory design method which was originally developed and is still primarily used as a healthcare quality improvement tool. Traditionally, EBCD has been sited within single services or settings and has yielded improvements grounded in the experiences of those delivering and receiving care. Method: In this article we present how EBCD can be adapted to develop complex interventions, underpinned by theory, to be tested more widely within the healthcare system as part of a multi-phase, multi-site research study. We begin with an outline of co-design and the stages of EBCD. We then provide an overview of how EBCD can be assimilated into an intervention development and evaluation study, giving examples of the adaptations and research tools and methods that can be deployed. We also suggest how to appraise the resulting intervention so it is realistic and tractable in multiple sites. We describe how EBCD can be combined with different behaviour change theories and methods for intervention development and finally, we make suggestions about the skills needed for successful intervention development using EBCD. Conclusion: EBCD has been recognised as being a collaborative approach to improving healthcare services that puts patients and healthcare staff at the heart of initiatives and potential changes. We have demonstrated how EBCD can be integrated into a research project and how existing research approaches can be assimilated into EBCD stages. We have also suggested where behaviour change theories can be used to better understand intervention change mechanisms.

Yes / Introduction: Oral anticoagulant therapy choices for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) expanded in the last decade with the introduction of direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC). However, the implementation of DOACs was slow and varied across different health economies in England. There is limited evidence on the patient role in the uptake of new medicines, including DOACs, apart from considering their demographic and clinical characteristics. Hence, this study aimed to address the gap by exploring the view of patients with AF on factors affecting DOAC use. Methods: A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted in three health economies in the North of England. Adult patients (>18 years) diagnosed with non-valvular AF, prescribed an oral anticoagulant (vitamin K antagonist or DOAC), and able to give written consent were recruited. Data were collected between August 2018 and April 2019. Audio recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using the framework method. Results: Four themes with eleven subthemes discussed identified factors affecting the use of DOACs. They were linked to limited healthcare financial and workforce resources, patient involvement in decision-making, patient knowledge about DOACs, safety concerns about oral anticoagulants, and oral anticoagulant therapy impact on patients' daily lives. Lack of a) opportunities to voice patient preferences and b) information on available therapy options resulted in some patients experiencing difficulties with the prescribed therapy. This was reported to cause negative impact on their daily lives, adherence, and overall satisfaction with the therapy. Conclusion: Greater patient involvement in decision-making could prevent and resolve difficulties encountered by some patients and potentially improve outcomes plus increase the uptake of DOACs. / Pharmacy Research UK (PRUK-2018-GA-1-KM) and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The thesis is focused on the distribution of medicinal products containing the active ingredient pseudoephedrine. These medicines are misused because of its active substance to produce an addictive methamphetamine (meth). The aim is to monitor the development restrictions associated with those drugs in the past, concern and characterize the current status of this issue. In the thesis, the theoretical knowledge of economics and drug problems. The practical part deals with the historical development of restrictions and evaluation of the status quo.

INTRODUÇÃO:Os medicamentos pertencentes à RENAME têm sua eficácia comprovada são embasados sob critérios técnicos e científicos, e quando prescritos assumem profunda relevância dentro do contexto da saúde pública brasileira, por facilitarem o acesso aos medicamentos.OBJETIVO: Avaliar a associação entre acesso a medicamentos e prescrição segundo a Relação Nacional de Medicamentos Essenciais (RENAME). METODOLOGIA: Foram analisadas cópias de receitas médicas obtidas da pesquisa intitulada Experiência de Acesso da População de Baixa Renda a Medicamentos e Genéricos, Município de São Paulo 2005; para as análises estatísticas, foram utilizados os programas Epi-Info 2000 e OpenEpi. RESULTADOS: A média de medicamentos com receita foi de 2,5 / desvio padrão: 1,5479; o percentual de nenhum acesso e acesso parcial ás prescrições, juntos, foi de 54por cento ; nas Unidades Básicas de Saúde foram realizadas mais da metade das prescrições analisadas; a forma farmacêutica predominante foi comprimidos; cerca de 75por cento dos medicamentos estava presente nas listas de medicamentos essenciais, nacional ou municipal; dos medicamentos prescritos, 78por cento foram obtidos e 41por cento , dos que não estavam prescritos, também foram obtidos. CONCLUSÃO: Do total de medicamentos analisados, 65por cento estavam prescritos segundo a RENAME, e desses, 78por cento , foram obtidos; as Unidades Básicas de Saúde foram responsáveis por fornecer mais da metade das receitas; a quantidade de medicamentos prescritos mostrou-se negativamente correlacionada ao percentual de acesso aos mesmos; as prescrições quando seguem a RENAME têm a chance de acesso entre 4 a 6 vezes maior de se obter os medicamentos / INTRODUCTION: The medicaments belonging to RENAME have their eficiency verified, under technical and cientific criteria and when they are prescribed they become a matter of great concern regarding the Brazilian Publich Health because they facilitate the access to medicaments. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the association between access to medicaments and prescription according the National List of Essential Medicaments (RENAME). METHODOLOGY : Copies of the medical prescriptions obtained from the research called Experience in Access to medicament and Generic of Low income population, Sao Paulo Municipal Discrict, 2005,and also the Programs Epi-Info 2000 and OpenEpi because of the statistic analysis. RESULTS: The average of medicament with prescription was 2,5 / Standard Deviation: 1.5479, the percentage of no access and partial access together was 54per cent. More than a half of the analysed prescriptions were done at the Health Fundamental Units. Also, among the pharmaceutical kinds, tablets and pills were the dominant ones and around 75per cent of the medicaments were present in the lists of essential medicaments in the country and districs. Among the prescribed medicaments, 78per cent were obtained while 41per cent of the non-prescribed ones were also obtained. CONCLUSION: From a total of the analysed medicaments, 65per cent of them were prescribed observing RENAME, and 78per cent of them were obtained. The Health Fundamental Units were responsible for providing more than a half of the prescriptions. The amount of medicaments involved were negatively correlated to the number of medicaments. The prescriptions that observe RENAME have 4 to 6 times more chances to be successful when it comes to obtaining medicines

Decisions to reform pharmaceutical policy often involve trade-offs between competing social and commercial goals. Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), a reform that permits compulsory licensing for the production and export of medicines to developing countries, aimed to reconcile these goals. Since it was passed in 2004, only one order of antiretroviral drugs, enough for 21,000 HIV/AIDS patients in Rwanda for one year, has been exported. Future use of the regime appears unlikely. This research aimed to examine the politics underlying the formation of CAMR. Parliamentary committee hearing transcripts from CAMR's legislative development (2004) and from CAMR's legislative review (2007) were analyzed using a content analysis technique to identify how stakeholders who participated in the debates framed the issues. These findings were subsequently analyzed using a framework of framing, institutions and interests to determine how these three dimensions shaped CAMR's final policy design. In 2004, policy debates were dominated by two themes: intellectual property rights and TRIPS compliance. Promoting human rights and the impact of CAMR on innovation were hardly discussed. With the Departments of Industry Canada and International Trade as the lead institutions, the goals of protecting intellectual property and ensuring good trade relations with the United States appear to have taken priority over encouraging generic competition to achieve drug affordability. The result was a more limited interpretation of patent flexibilities under the WTO Paragraph 6 Decision. The most striking finding is the minimal discussion over the potential barriers developing country beneficiaries might face when attempting to use compulsory licensing, including their reluctance to use TRIPS flexibilities, their desire to pursue technological development and the constraints inherent in the WTO Paragraph 6 Decision. Instead, these issues were raised in 2007, which can be partly accounted for by a greater representation of the interests of potential beneficiary country governments. While the Government attempted to strike a balance between drug affordability and intellectual property protection, it designed CAMR as a last resort measure. Increased input from the developing country beneficiaries and shifting to institutions where the right to health gets prioritized may lead to policies that better achieves affordable drug access.

L’accès financier limité aux soins de santé a suscité l’instauration de politiques sanitaires de subvention des soins en Afrique. Au Burkina Faso, une ONG, en complémentarité avec la politique sanitaire nationale subventionne à 100% depuis septembre 2008 les soins et les médicaments pour les enfants de moins de cinq ans dans le district sanitaire de Dori. L’intervention regroupe formation du personnel soignant, supervisions et suppression de paiement des soins et des médicaments. L’objectif de l’étude est d’analyser l’effet de cette intervention sur l’adéquation des prescriptions médicales. Neuf centres de santé ont été pris en compte. Au total 14956 ordonnances d’enfants de moins de cinq ans ciblés par l’intervention ont été sélectionnées par échantillonnage systématique à partir des registres de consultation un an avant et un an après l’instauration de l’intervention. Quatorze prescripteurs ont été interviewés. Les prescriptions ont été analysées par comparaison au référentiel de l’OMS ainsi qu’au référentiel national. Le discours des prescripteurs a été analysé en vue de comprendre leur perception de leur changement de pratiques depuis de début de la subvention. L’intervention a eu pour effet de diminuer l’utilisation des injections (Rapport de cote (RC) =0,28; p<0,005) dans le cas des infections respiratoires aiguës (IRA). Elle a entraîné une diminution de l’utilisation inappropriée des antibiotiques dans les cas de paludisme seul (RC=0,48; p<0,0005). Le nombre moyen de médicaments par ordonnance a également diminué de 14% dans les cas d’IRA (p<0,0005). Les prescripteurs ont affirmé pour la plupart que leurs pratiques se sont soit maintenues soit améliorées. L’intervention a entrainé une amélioration de l’adéquation des prescriptions médicales dans certains cas. / The limited financial access to health care has encouraged the creation of health policies for subsidizing care in Africa. In Burkina Faso, an NGO, in line with the national health policy has been subsidizing care and medicines for children under five years in the health district of Dori since September 2008. The program includes training of health workers, supervision and removal of fees for health care and medication. The aim of the study was to analyze the effect of this free care program on the adequacy of drugs prescriptions. Nine health centers were taken into account. A total of 14,956 prescriptions of the target group of children under five years were collected from consultation records a year before and after the introduction of free care program. In addition, fourteen prescribers were interviewed. The prescriptions were analyzed in comparison to the WHO and the national reference. The prescribers’ responses were analyzed to understand their perception of their change in practice since the introduction of the free care program. The study showed that the free care program had an effect by decreasing the use of injections (Odds Ratio (OR) =0.28, p < 0.005) in acute respiratory infections (ARI) cases. It also led to decrease in inappropriate use of antibiotics in the case of malaria (OR=0.48, p<0.0005). The average number of drugs per prescription was also found to have decreased by 14% (p<0.0005) in ARI cases. Several prescribers asserted that their practices are maintained or improved. The program leads to an improvement in the adequacy of drugs prescriptions.

Decisions to reform pharmaceutical policy often involve trade-offs between competing social and commercial goals. Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), a reform that permits compulsory licensing for the production and export of medicines to developing countries, aimed to reconcile these goals. Since it was passed in 2004, only one order of antiretroviral drugs, enough for 21,000 HIV/AIDS patients in Rwanda for one year, has been exported. Future use of the regime appears unlikely. This research aimed to examine the politics underlying the formation of CAMR. Parliamentary committee hearing transcripts from CAMR's legislative development (2004) and from CAMR's legislative review (2007) were analyzed using a content analysis technique to identify how stakeholders who participated in the debates framed the issues. These findings were subsequently analyzed using a framework of framing, institutions and interests to determine how these three dimensions shaped CAMR's final policy design. In 2004, policy debates were dominated by two themes: intellectual property rights and TRIPS compliance. Promoting human rights and the impact of CAMR on innovation were hardly discussed. With the Departments of Industry Canada and International Trade as the lead institutions, the goals of protecting intellectual property and ensuring good trade relations with the United States appear to have taken priority over encouraging generic competition to achieve drug affordability. The result was a more limited interpretation of patent flexibilities under the WTO Paragraph 6 Decision. The most striking finding is the minimal discussion over the potential barriers developing country beneficiaries might face when attempting to use compulsory licensing, including their reluctance to use TRIPS flexibilities, their desire to pursue technological development and the constraints inherent in the WTO Paragraph 6 Decision. Instead, these issues were raised in 2007, which can be partly accounted for by a greater representation of the interests of potential beneficiary country governments. While the Government attempted to strike a balance between drug affordability and intellectual property protection, it designed CAMR as a last resort measure. Increased input from the developing country beneficiaries and shifting to institutions where the right to health gets prioritized may lead to policies that better achieves affordable drug access.

INTRODUÇÃO:Os medicamentos pertencentes à RENAME têm sua eficácia comprovada são embasados sob critérios técnicos e científicos, e quando prescritos assumem profunda relevância dentro do contexto da saúde pública brasileira, por facilitarem o acesso aos medicamentos.OBJETIVO: Avaliar a associação entre acesso a medicamentos e prescrição segundo a Relação Nacional de Medicamentos Essenciais (RENAME). METODOLOGIA: Foram analisadas cópias de receitas médicas obtidas da pesquisa intitulada Experiência de Acesso da População de Baixa Renda a Medicamentos e Genéricos, Município de São Paulo 2005; para as análises estatísticas, foram utilizados os programas Epi-Info 2000 e OpenEpi. RESULTADOS: A média de medicamentos com receita foi de 2,5 / desvio padrão: 1,5479; o percentual de nenhum acesso e acesso parcial ás prescrições, juntos, foi de 54por cento ; nas Unidades Básicas de Saúde foram realizadas mais da metade das prescrições analisadas; a forma farmacêutica predominante foi comprimidos; cerca de 75por cento dos medicamentos estava presente nas listas de medicamentos essenciais, nacional ou municipal; dos medicamentos prescritos, 78por cento foram obtidos e 41por cento , dos que não estavam prescritos, também foram obtidos. CONCLUSÃO: Do total de medicamentos analisados, 65por cento estavam prescritos segundo a RENAME, e desses, 78por cento , foram obtidos; as Unidades Básicas de Saúde foram responsáveis por fornecer mais da metade das receitas; a quantidade de medicamentos prescritos mostrou-se negativamente correlacionada ao percentual de acesso aos mesmos; as prescrições quando seguem a RENAME têm a chance de acesso entre 4 a 6 vezes maior de se obter os medicamentos / INTRODUCTION: The medicaments belonging to RENAME have their eficiency verified, under technical and cientific criteria and when they are prescribed they become a matter of great concern regarding the Brazilian Publich Health because they facilitate the access to medicaments. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the association between access to medicaments and prescription according the National List of Essential Medicaments (RENAME). METHODOLOGY : Copies of the medical prescriptions obtained from the research called Experience in Access to medicament and Generic of Low income population, Sao Paulo Municipal Discrict, 2005,and also the Programs Epi-Info 2000 and OpenEpi because of the statistic analysis. RESULTS: The average of medicament with prescription was 2,5 / Standard Deviation: 1.5479, the percentage of no access and partial access together was 54per cent. More than a half of the analysed prescriptions were done at the Health Fundamental Units. Also, among the pharmaceutical kinds, tablets and pills were the dominant ones and around 75per cent of the medicaments were present in the lists of essential medicaments in the country and districs. Among the prescribed medicaments, 78per cent were obtained while 41per cent of the non-prescribed ones were also obtained. CONCLUSION: From a total of the analysed medicaments, 65per cent of them were prescribed observing RENAME, and 78per cent of them were obtained. The Health Fundamental Units were responsible for providing more than a half of the prescriptions. The amount of medicaments involved were negatively correlated to the number of medicaments. The prescriptions that observe RENAME have 4 to 6 times more chances to be successful when it comes to obtaining medicines

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-10-19T16:42:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 patriciaaparecidabaumgratzdepaula.pdf: 674957 bytes, checksum: 47aead25964f7f8056ae745c65f91f0c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-10-25T12:23:26Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 patriciaaparecidabaumgratzdepaula.pdf: 674957 bytes, checksum: 47aead25964f7f8056ae745c65f91f0c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-25T12:23:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 patriciaaparecidabaumgratzdepaula.pdf: 674957 bytes, checksum: 47aead25964f7f8056ae745c65f91f0c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-03-28 / O presente trabalho enfatiza a questão do acesso aos medicamentos visto como direito social assegurado na constituição do Sistema Único de Saúde. Para tanto, abordar-se-á o processo de medicalização vivenciado pela sociedade brasileira contemporânea, bem como, a política nacional de medicamentos e seus entraves. Também irá se buscar a apreensão da categoria acesso aos medicamentos, a partir das dimensões do acesso aos serviços de saúde. Todas estas categorias consideradas indissociáveis na busca pelo acesso universal e eqüinâme aos medicamentos. Nessa perspectiva, a partir da pesquisa qualitativa, foram realizados grupos focais com os usuários das unidades básicas de saúde (UBS) de Juiz de Fora – Minas Gerais, para buscar compreender o entendimento da problemática inerente ao acesso aos medicamentos como direito social, isto é, se esses usuários sentem-se como portadores de direitos ou como privilegiados ao obterem tal acesso. Esse estudo indicou que a maioria dos usuários das UBS não se considera como portadores de direitos, mostrando que o acesso aos medicamentos como direito social garantido constitucionalmente está longe de ser efetivado no cotidiano do serviço público de saúde brasileiro na contemporaneidade. / The present work emphasizes the question of access to medicine as a social right assured by the constitution of Health Public System. For that, it has been approached the process of medicalization experienced by the Brazilian society nowadays, as well as, the national medicines politics and its obstacles. It is also aimed to search for the apprehension of the access category to medicines, from the access dimension to the health services. All these categories considered inseparable in the search for universal and equanimous access to medicines. In this perspective, from the qualitative research, it has been realized foccuss groups with the users of the health basic unities (HBU) from the Juiz de Fora – Minas Gerais, to look forward to comprehend the understanding of the problematic inherent to access to medicines as a social right, that is, if these users feel themselves as porters of rights or as priviledged ones to obtain this access. This study has indicated that the majority of the HBU users do not consider themselves as porters of the rights, showing that access to medicines as a social right assured constitutionally is far from being daily effected in the Brazilian public health service in the contemporaneity.