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Nurse-filled versus pharmacy-filled medication organization devices – survey on current practices and views of home care nursing services

  • Medication organization devices (MODs) are widely used among home care nursing services. However, current practices such as the responsibility for filling MODs, different MOD types used and requirements of home care nursing services are largely unknown. The study aimed at ana-lyzing home care nursing services’ current practices regarding MOD use, investigating their re-quirements and determining whether different practices met these requirements. A survey was administered online to German home care nursing services in February 2021. The importance of requirements and the extent of satisfaction were measured using a five-point scale. Attitudes to-wards disposable, pharmacy-filled MODs were recorded as free text. In total, 690 nursing services responded (67.5% privately owned and 34.5% based in large cities), 92.2% filled MODs them-selves and used predominantly reusable, rigid MODs. Pharmacies filling MODs used primarily disposable MODs. Satisfaction with current practices was generally high. Respondents filling MODs themselves wereMedication organization devices (MODs) are widely used among home care nursing services. However, current practices such as the responsibility for filling MODs, different MOD types used and requirements of home care nursing services are largely unknown. The study aimed at ana-lyzing home care nursing services’ current practices regarding MOD use, investigating their re-quirements and determining whether different practices met these requirements. A survey was administered online to German home care nursing services in February 2021. The importance of requirements and the extent of satisfaction were measured using a five-point scale. Attitudes to-wards disposable, pharmacy-filled MODs were recorded as free text. In total, 690 nursing services responded (67.5% privately owned and 34.5% based in large cities), 92.2% filled MODs them-selves and used predominantly reusable, rigid MODs. Pharmacies filling MODs used primarily disposable MODs. Satisfaction with current practices was generally high. Respondents filling MODs themselves were more satisfied with nurses’ medication knowledge, but less satisfied with cost effectiveness than those who had pharmacies fill MODs. Of all respondents filling MODs themselves who expressed an opinion on disposable, pharmacy-filled MODs, 50.9% were skepti-cal, primarily due to fear of losing flexibility. However, no difference in satisfaction with flexibility was found between respondents filling MODs themselves and those using pharmacy-filled MODs. In conclusion, employment of MODs in the professional care setting is a complex task with nurs-ing services as key constituents. There is potential for improvement in the inter-professional col-laboration between pharmacies and home care nursing services on the use of MODs. Measures for improvement have to address home care nursing services’ requirements with respect to flexibility and medication knowledge.show moreshow less

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Author:Thomas SchmidORCiDGND, Falk HoffmannORCiDGND, Michael DörksORCiDGND, Kathrin JobskiORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10040620
Identifier:2227-9032 OPAC HS OPAC extern
Parent Title (English):Healthcare
Publisher:MDPI
Place of publication:Basel
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2022/03/25
Year of first Publication:2022
Tag:blister pouch; medication adherence; medication organizer
Volume:10
Issue:4
Article Number:620
Number of pages:12 Seiten
First Page:1
Last Page:12
Institutes:Fakultät Soziales und Gesundheit
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften
Open Access:open_access
Research focus:FSP4: Soziale Innovationen
Publication Lists:Schmid, Thomas
Publication reviewed:begutachtet
Licence (German):Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Release Date:2022/03/29
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