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      Receta electrónica: limitaciones y posibles mejoras para asegurar una mayor adherencia a los tratamientos Translated title: Electronic prescription: limitations and possible improvements to ensure greater adherence to treatments

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          RESUMEN Fundamentos: La receta electrónica ha supuesto una evolución en la calidad de la asistencia sanitaria, pero presenta una serie de deficiencias que comprometen la adherencia a los tratamientos. El objetivo de este trabajo fue recopilar y agrupar estas limitaciones y proponer cambios que podrían resolverlas. Sujeto y métodos: Durante los años 2017 y 2018, a través de las actividades de dispensación y seguimiento farmacoterapéutico, se recogieron en una farmacia de Santander las incidencias relacionadas con la dispensación de recetas electrónicas y se identificaron sus causas. Se realizó una encuesta que se envió a los Centros de Información de los Medicamentos del resto de comunidades autónomas para conocer si se compartían los mismos problemas y se trataron los datos resultantes mediante distribución de frecuencias. Resultados: Se detectaron 1.500 incidencias relacionadas con el modo de acceso al tratamiento y su periodo de activación, con la disponibilidad de la medicación cuando el paciente lo solicitaba y aquellas en las que era indispensable la valoración del problema por parte del médico. Los datos de la encuesta mostraron que en el 100% de las comunidades autónomas el paciente debía volver al centro de salud para solucionar estas incidencias, al no existir ningún protocolo para resolverlas desde la farmacia. Conclusiones: Estas incidencias comprometen la adherencia a los tratamientos y la salud de los pacientes. Para evitarlas, proponemos la eliminación del número de orden que es necesario para acceder al tratamiento, la instauración de un período mínimo de 30 días para su activación, la creación de protocolos para que el farmacéutico pueda solucionar problemas y realizar dispensaciones en circunstancias especiales, y por último, la optimización de la comunicación entre farmacéutico y médico.

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          ABSTRACT Background: The electronic prescription has meant an evolution in the quality of health care, but it has a series of deficiencies that compromise the adherence to treatments. The objective of this work was to collect and group these limitations and propose the changes that could solve them. Methods: During 2017 and 2018, through dispensing and pharmacotherapeutic monitoring activities, incidents related to the electronic prescription were collected in a pharmacy in Santander and their causes were identified. A survey was conducted and sent to the Information Centers of the Medicines of the rest of the regions to know if the same problems were shared and the resulting data were treated by frequency distribution. Results: We detected 1,500 incidents related to the way of access to the treatment and its activation period, with the availability of the medication when the patient requested it and those in which the assessment of the problem by the doctor was essential. The survey data showed that in 100% of the CCAA the patient must return to the doctor when there is an incidence, because there is no protocol to solve it from the pharmacy. Conclusions: These incidents compromise the adherence to treatments and the health of patients. To avoid them, we propose the elimination of the password that is necessary to access the treatment, the establishment of a minimum period of 30 days for its activation, the creation of protocols so that the pharmacist can solve problems and perform dispensations in special circumstances, and finally, the optimization of the communication between pharmacist and doctor.

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          Emergency medical services (EMS) administrators seek methods to enhance system performance. One component scrutinized is the response time (RT) interval between call receipt and arrival on scene. While reducing RTs may improve survival, this remains speculative and unreported. To determine the effect of current RTs on survival in an urban EMS system. The study was conducted in a metropolitan county (population 620,000). The EMS system is a single-tier, paramedic service and provides all service requests. The 90% fractile RT specifications required for county compliance include 10:59 minutes for emergency life-threatening calls (priority I) and 12:59 minutes for emergency non-life-threatening calls (priority II). All emergency responses resulting in a priority I or priority II transport to a Level 1 trauma center emergency department over a six-month period were evaluated to determine the relation between specified and arbitrarily assigned RTs and survival. Five thousand, four hundred twenty-four transports were reviewed. Of these, 71 patients did not survive (1.31%; 95% CI = 1.04% to 1.67%). No significant difference in median RTs between survivors (6.4 min) and nonsurvivors (6.8 min) was noted (p = 0.10). Further, there was no significant difference between observed and expected deaths (p = 0.14). However, mortality risk was 1.58% for patients whose RT exceeded 5 minutes, and 0.51% for those whose RT was under 5 minutes (p = 0.002). The mortality risk curve was generally flat over RT intervals exceeding 5 minutes. In this observational study, emergency calls where RTs were less than 5 minutes were associated with improved survival when compared with calls where RTs exceeded 5 minutes. While variables other than time may be associated with this improved survival, there is little evidence in these data to suggest that changing this system's response time specifications to times less than current, but greater than 5 minutes, would have any beneficial effect on survival.
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                Journal
                resp
                Revista Española de Salud Pública
                Rev. Esp. Salud Publica
                Ministerio de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar social (Madrid, Madrid, Spain )
                1135-5727
                2173-9110
                2019
                : 93
                : e201909070
                Affiliations
                [1] Granada Andalucía orgnameUniversidad de Granada Spain
                [2] Santander orgnameFarmacia de José Daniel Carballeira Rodríguez España
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                S1135-57272019000100214 S1135-5727(19)09300000214
                40ec030e-de03-4b14-baaa-d80254174d96

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International License.

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                : 26 April 2019
                : 12 July 2019
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                Protocols,Quality of healthcare,Medication,Pharmaceutical care,Adherence to treatment,Incidences,Limitations,Electronic prescription,Protocolos,Calidad de la asistencia sanitaria,Medicación,Atención farmacéutica,Adherencia al tratamiento,Incidencias,Limitaciones,Receta electrónica

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