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Profile of Prescription Medication in an Internal Medicine Ward
Perpétuo, Carla; Plácido, Ana; Aperta, Jorge; Herdeiro, Maria; Roque, FátimaAging-related loss of resilience associated with the lack of evidence regarding the therapeutic efficacy of medicines can prompt a lack of efficacy of treatments and multiple prescriptions. This work aims to characterize the medication profile of Portuguese older adult inpatients and explore the relationship between hospitalization days and the consumption of medicines. A retrospective data analysis study in ol...
Prescription of Potentially Inappropriate Medication in Older Inpatients of an ...
Perpétuo, Carla; Plácido, Ana; Rodrigues, Daniela; Aperta, Jorge; Piñeiro-Lamas, Maria; Figueiras, Adolfo; Herdeiro, Maria; Roque, FátimaBackground: Age-related comorbidities prone older adults to polypharmacy and to an increased risk of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use. This work aims to analyze the concordance and overlap among the EU(7)-PIM list, 2019 Beers criteria, and Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions (STOPP) version 2 criteria and also to analyze the prevalence of PIM. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was c...
CENTRALIZED PURCHASING IN HEALTH
Aperta, Jorge; Borges, Andrea; Cadilha, Diana; Dimas, Francisca; Dinis, Cristina; Feio, José; Fonseca, Olímpia; Garcia, Martinha; Marques, FilomenaThe centralization of purchases has been increasingly a strategic trend, particularly in the health sector. In Portugal, the SPMS, Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde, E.P.E., was established in 2010 as a central purchasing entity for the health sector. Centralized purchasing can bring advantages, such as increasing the efficiency of the purchasing process, but also disadvantages, such as the possibilit...
POSICIONAMENTO DA ASSOCIAÇÃO PORTUGUESA DE FARMACÊUTICOS HOSPITALARES PARA OS B...
Gonçalves, João; Batista, Aida; Feio, José; Machado, Francisco; Aperta, Jorge; Ascensão, Inês; Pires, Vera; Oliveira, Catarina; Pontes, Rosa Armandina.
Impacto da introdução no formulário de uma nova terapêutica biotecnológica imun...
Aperta, Jorge; Cobrado, Nuno; Quinaz, Conceição