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Survey on Outpatients' Views for One-Dose Package in Kochi Medical School Hospital and Influence of One-Dose Package on Dispensing Error.

2001; Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences; Volume: 27; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5649/jjphcs.27.356

1882-1499

Saburo Yoshioka, Aki Kitamoto, Saori Kanazawa, Sigefumi Okamoto, Junko Yokota, Kyoko Ogi, Nozomu Miyano, Masahide Onogawa, Hisashi Masui, Shojiro Kyotani, Yutaka Nishioka,

One-dose package dispensations of tablets and capsules were performed in all outpatients in order to improve the medication compliance and prevent any incorrect drug ingestion and the effect of this method was evaluated based on a questionnaire survey for outpatients. As a result, it became clear that the age of the patient, the interval of taking medicine, the kind of drugs in the one-dose packages, the number of prescriptions and the dosage days were judgment factors in the evaluation process. In other words, the outpatients who gave “good” answers were aged, had been taking the medicine for a long time, and had received many kinds of drugs in a one-dose package. On the other hand, the outpatients who gave “not good” answers had more types of medicine prescribed, and had been taking the medicine for longer periods of time. After being the one-dose package method the number of dispensing errors decreased from 6.0 cases to 3.5 cases per day on the average.