Continued Dispensing: What medications do patients believe should be available?
dc.contributor.author | Abukres, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Hoti, Kreshnik | |
dc.contributor.author | Hughes, Jeff | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T13:01:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T13:01:13Z | |
dc.date.created | 2015-10-29T04:08:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Abukres, S. and Hoti, K. and Hughes, J. 2015. Continued Dispensing: What medications do patients believe should be available? PeerJ. 3: e924. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27789 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.7717/peerj.924 | |
dc.description.abstract |
© 2015 Abukres et al. Background. Continued Dispensing (CD) is a new medication supply method for certain medications in Australia. It aims to prevent treatment interruption as a result of patients' inability to obtain a new valid prescription. The only currently eligible patients for this service are statin and/or oral contraceptives users who have been using these medications for 6 months or more, have not utilized the CD method during the last 12 months, and cannot obtain an immediate appointment with the prescriber in order to get a new prescription. This study aimed to investigate patients' attitudes towards potential extension and expansion of this medication supply method. Methods. A randomly selected 301 users of these medications from all Australian States were recruited using Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI). Result. The response rate was 79%. The majority of the participants (73.3%) did not agree with current restriction on CD utilization frequency. They also supported, to varying degrees, inclusion of all the proposed medications (support ranged from 44.2-78.4%). In this regard, participants who suffered from a specific disease did not differ significantly fromthose without the disease except in case of patients with depression (p = 0.001). Conclusions. Participants of this study strongly supported both CD extension and expansion. A future critical review of the current version of CD is highly recommended in order to enhance CD capability to achieve its goals. | |
dc.publisher | PeerJ Inc. | |
dc.title | Continued Dispensing: What medications do patients believe should be available? | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dcterms.source.volume | 2015 | |
dcterms.source.number | 5 | |
dcterms.source.title | PeerJ | |
curtin.note |
This open access article is distributed under the Creative Commons license | |
curtin.department | School of Pharmacy | |
curtin.accessStatus | Open access |