[Drug substitutions in the pharmacy offices of the Community of Madrid]
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J A Barbero González1, A de Diego Berlinches, H del Barrio Sánchez
1Red Española de Atención Primaria, Madrid. a.barbero@jet.es
Objectives:
To evaluate the stock failure and substitutions of drugs in community pharmacies.
Design:
A descriptive cross-sectional study.
Setting:
Community pharmacies in Madrid.
Participants:
Nine pharmacies which voluntarily accepted to work in this study. The data were collected during four months in a year.
Measurements And Main Results:
The total stock failure was 1.72%. New pharmaceuticals correspond with 10.73% of all stock failure. The pharmacists substituted the 31.04% of the total stock failure. Antibiotics and chemotherapeutics were the drugs most substituted with 46.98% of all substitutions. Patients accepted to substitute 78.39% of the proposals of the pharmacists.
Conclusions:
High percentage of the stock failure belongs to new brand pharmaceuticals. In this study there were few substitutions (0.53%) of the total dispensings. The drugs most substituted were antibiotics and chemotherapeutics. Substitutions depend on pharmacists' wishes and on patients' approval.
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