Birthe Søndergaard

TL;DR: ADEs in ambulatory care are common, with many being preventable and many resulting in hospitalization, and quality improvement programs should target errors in prescribing and monitoring, especially for patients using cardiovascular, analgesic, and hypoglycemic agents.

TL;DR: A general decline in health-related quality of life over time was observed in the pooled data; however, significant improvements were achieved in patients involved in the pharmaceutical care programme in some countries.

TL;DR: It was noted that the provision of pharmaceutical care in community pharmacy is still limited within Europe, and pharmacists in England and Ireland who were supported in their place of work by other pharmacists scored significantly higher on referral and consultation and had a higher overall provision of Pharmaceutical care.

TL;DR: Applying the legend time method to medicine groups used mainly on a chronic basis revealed good to very good agreement between the two data sources, whereas medicines used as needed showed fair to moderate agreement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether a comprehensive and a brief individually targeted intervention for patients with type 2 diabetes could improve implementation of drug therapy in Danish community pharmacies, aiming to give patients more competence and support to improve adherence and selfmanagement in order to reach treatment goals for diabetes and blood pressure as well as goals for patient perceived outcomes.