Introdução: A não adesão ao tratamento é um fenômeno multifatorial que se faz pre-sente nos tratamentos de doenças crônicas, estimando-se que metade dos pacientes sob tratamento não são aderentes. Como consequência, ocorre falha terapêutica, a-gravo de saúde, queda na qualidade de vida e elevação dos gastos em saúde. O acompanhamento farmacoterapêutico (AFT) viabiliza a detecção e prevenção/resolução de problem...
Objective: To describe and analyze the pharmaceutical orientation given at hospital discharge of transplant patients. Methods: This was a cross-sectional, descriptive and retrospective study that used records of orientation given by the clinical pharmacist in the inpatients unit of the Kidney and Liver Transplant Department, at Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio , in the city of Fortaleza (CE), Brazil, from...
Studies have shown that, through Pharmaceutical Care, there was improvement in adherence to treatment, quality of life and achievement of therapeutic goals in chronic diseases, such as Systemic Arterial Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus. Then, the evaluation of a Pharmaceutical Care Unit (UCF) of a Unit of Primary Health Care of Fortaleza was carried out through indicators of process and clinical-humanistic re...
Cardiovascular complications are relevant due to their frequency and severity on the hypertension scenario. Studies refer Pharmaceutical Care (PC) as capable of decreasing cardiovascular risk rate (%CVR) on hypertensive patients. This study aimed to investigate, through a randomized clinical assay, the influence of PC service on the %CVR of hypertensive patients assisted in a health primary care unit from Forta...
The Systemic Arterial Hypertension is one of the most important diseases in Brazil regarding epidemiology. Among the major causes for death in individuals with hyper-tension the cardiovascular complications show great relevance due to their severity and frequency. Prior studies from several countries demonstrated that, through the Pharmaceutical Care (PC) practice, there was a decrease in the cardiovascular ris...
The influence of pharmacotherapeutic follow-up (PTF) on quality of life was evaluated in 45 HIV+ patients, who were undergoing initial antiretroviral therapy at a specialized care center in northeast Brazil. PTF lasted nine months and quality of life was analyzed at the 1st and 9th meetings using a questionnaire validated for Brazil. The study identified 643 problems related to antiretrovirals and there were 59...
A descriptive and prospective study was conducted on the pharmaceutical care in the post-transplant outpatient clinic of Hospital Universitario Walter Cantidio of Universidade Federal do Ceará (HUWC/UFC), in Fortaleza- Ceará in the period of April to October of 2011. The aim of the present study was to describe the pharmaceutical interventions performed in a Pharmaceutical Care service structured in the liver a...
The influence of pharmacotherapeutic follow-up (PTF) on quality of life was evaluated in 45 HIV+ patients, who were undergoing initial antiretroviral therapy at a specialized care center in northeast Brazil. PTF lasted nine months and quality of life was analyzed at the 1st and 9th meetings using a questionnaire validated for Brazil. The study identified 643 problems related to antiretrovirals and there were 59...