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Hélène Bordenave1, Fabien Despas, Agnès Sommet
1Service de Pharmacologie Clinique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Toulouse, France.
Abstract:
France is the first country in Europe for medicines' consumption. It is not possible to imagine a house without a medicine cabinet. There are very few data on this subject. The aim of our work was to study the composition of families' cabinets. On the first six month 2010, an investigation questionnaire was distributed in pharmacy community located Pyrénées-Atlantiques area. Questionnaires were given to all the patients coming to the chemist's. On 207 questionnaires available, a medicines' cabinet hold 12.1 ± 12.1 specialities name in average, 19.8 ± 17.9 packing (most frequent: Classes V: miscelleanous and A medicines: digestive system and metabolism) and an average of 5.6 ± 7.5 expired packing (28.4% of the medicines stock). The present study highlights the important quantity of medicines found in the families' medicines cabinets. It underlines the important role of the pharmacist and family doctor for the patient's therapeutic education.
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