Continued Dispensing: What medications do patients believe should be available?
© 2015 Abukres et al. Background. Continued Dispensing (CD) is a new medication supply method for certain medications in Australia. It aims to prevent treatment interruption as a result of patients' inability to obtain a new valid prescription. The only currently eligible patients for this serv...
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| description | © 2015 Abukres et al. Background. Continued Dispensing (CD) is a new medication supply method for certain medications in Australia. It aims to prevent treatment interruption as a result of patients' inability to obtain a new valid prescription. The only currently eligible patients for this service are statin and/or oral contraceptives users who have been using these medications for 6 months or more, have not utilized the CD method during the last 12 months, and cannot obtain an immediate appointment with the prescriber in order to get a new prescription. This study aimed to investigate patients' attitudes towards potential extension and expansion of this medication supply method. Methods. A randomly selected 301 users of these medications from all Australian States were recruited using Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI). Result. The response rate was 79%. The majority of the participants (73.3%) did not agree with current restriction on CD utilization frequency. They also supported, to varying degrees, inclusion of all the proposed medications (support ranged from 44.2-78.4%). In this regard, participants who suffered from a specific disease did not differ significantly fromthose without the disease except in case of patients with depression (p = 0.001). Conclusions. Participants of this study strongly supported both CD extension and expansion. A future critical review of the current version of CD is highly recommended in order to enhance CD capability to achieve its goals. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-277892017-09-13T15:13:26Z Continued Dispensing: What medications do patients believe should be available? Abukres, S. Hoti, Kreshnik Hughes, Jeff © 2015 Abukres et al. Background. Continued Dispensing (CD) is a new medication supply method for certain medications in Australia. It aims to prevent treatment interruption as a result of patients' inability to obtain a new valid prescription. The only currently eligible patients for this service are statin and/or oral contraceptives users who have been using these medications for 6 months or more, have not utilized the CD method during the last 12 months, and cannot obtain an immediate appointment with the prescriber in order to get a new prescription. This study aimed to investigate patients' attitudes towards potential extension and expansion of this medication supply method. Methods. A randomly selected 301 users of these medications from all Australian States were recruited using Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI). Result. The response rate was 79%. The majority of the participants (73.3%) did not agree with current restriction on CD utilization frequency. They also supported, to varying degrees, inclusion of all the proposed medications (support ranged from 44.2-78.4%). In this regard, participants who suffered from a specific disease did not differ significantly fromthose without the disease except in case of patients with depression (p = 0.001). Conclusions. Participants of this study strongly supported both CD extension and expansion. A future critical review of the current version of CD is highly recommended in order to enhance CD capability to achieve its goals. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27789 10.7717/peerj.924 PeerJ Inc. fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Abukres, S. Hoti, Kreshnik Hughes, Jeff Continued Dispensing: What medications do patients believe should be available? |
| title | Continued Dispensing: What medications do patients believe should be available? |
| title_full | Continued Dispensing: What medications do patients believe should be available? |
| title_fullStr | Continued Dispensing: What medications do patients believe should be available? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Continued Dispensing: What medications do patients believe should be available? |
| title_short | Continued Dispensing: What medications do patients believe should be available? |
| title_sort | continued dispensing: what medications do patients believe should be available? |
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