Medication related problems among ambulatory patients with chronic kidney disease at St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Medication related problem (MRP) is an event occurring, as a result, the medication therapy that actually or potentially interferes with desired health outcomes. Evidences reported that the prevalence of MRPs may result in a high burden of morbidity and decrease patients' quality of life. The p...

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Published in:PloS one 2022-12, Vol.17 (12), p.e0278563
Main Authors: Legesse, Eshetu Shiferaw, Muhammed, Oumer Sada, Hamza, Leja, Nasir, Beshir Bedru, Nedi, Teshome
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Chronic kidney failure
Cross-Sectional Studies
Drug therapy
Ethiopia - epidemiology
Health aspects
Hospitals
Humans
Medicine and Health Sciences
Patient outcomes
People and Places
Quality of Life
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - drug therapy
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - epidemiology
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Summary:Medication related problem (MRP) is an event occurring, as a result, the medication therapy that actually or potentially interferes with desired health outcomes. Evidences reported that the prevalence of MRPs may result in a high burden of morbidity and decrease patients' quality of life. The problem is more significant among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) as a decline in kidney function and increase number of medications required to treat kidney disease and its complications. Thus, this study aimed to assess MRPs and its associated factors among patients with chronic kidney disease. Hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 248 adult ambulatory patients with CKD (stage 1-4) at St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College. Data were collected through patient interview and medical chart review from 1st of June to 30th of August 2019. MRPs were identified based on the standard treatment guidelines. Cipolle MRPs classification was used to classify the MRPs and Micromedex® was used as drug interaction checker. Binary logistic regression was utilized to identify the associated factors and p value
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0278563