Adherence during the Second National Conference on November 13 in Amsterdam was a report made public that concrete recommendations to improve adherence. The report, entitled "Time for a better use of medicines', prepared by Marnix Westein, which has temporarily as quartermaster in the Dutch Patients Consumers Federation (NP / CF) was posted. Experience has shown that there are already lots of initiatives to improve life but lacks consistency. For this reason, improvement steps appointed to a pooling of previous attempts at various places making.
The background of this report comes from various publications on adherence. For example, the WHO that, looking at the promotion of health, more to be gained from the proper use of medications than from innovative product development by pharmaceutical companies. It appears that around one third of all patients the therapy is at stake. Improper use will result annually in 19,000 cases of avoidable hospitalization, which unfortunately in several hundred cases resulting in death. Is estimated that as a result, each year in the care incurred a loss of hundreds of millions of euros.
Because the use of medicines in health care is organized anywhere else, the solution should also be sought in local events and custom. First, the guidance of the patient, which in the use of medicines has its own responsibility. Quartermaster Westein: "People are not always aware of their role in the use of medicines. It is for caregivers to estimate what guidance it needs someone. "
At all levels should work to improve. These are: the nurse, the doctor, the specialist, but also the pharmaceutical industry and insurers. In this process, the NP / CF at the forefront with the aim of improving the adherence by 50% in 2014. In order to achieve this objective calls on the NP / CF concerned parties to participate in the task force "good medication."
Parties involved in the improvement steps are: Dutch general practitioners association, Rural Doctors Association, Platform Patient Industry, Royal Dutch Society for the Promotion of Pharmacy, DVG Dutch Institute for responsible medication, chronically ill and disabled Council Netherlands and Dutch Patients Consumers Federation.
The background of this report comes from various publications on adherence. For example, the WHO that, looking at the promotion of health, more to be gained from the proper use of medications than from innovative product development by pharmaceutical companies. It appears that around one third of all patients the therapy is at stake. Improper use will result annually in 19,000 cases of avoidable hospitalization, which unfortunately in several hundred cases resulting in death. Is estimated that as a result, each year in the care incurred a loss of hundreds of millions of euros.
Because the use of medicines in health care is organized anywhere else, the solution should also be sought in local events and custom. First, the guidance of the patient, which in the use of medicines has its own responsibility. Quartermaster Westein: "People are not always aware of their role in the use of medicines. It is for caregivers to estimate what guidance it needs someone. "
At all levels should work to improve. These are: the nurse, the doctor, the specialist, but also the pharmaceutical industry and insurers. In this process, the NP / CF at the forefront with the aim of improving the adherence by 50% in 2014. In order to achieve this objective calls on the NP / CF concerned parties to participate in the task force "good medication."
Parties involved in the improvement steps are: Dutch general practitioners association, Rural Doctors Association, Platform Patient Industry, Royal Dutch Society for the Promotion of Pharmacy, DVG Dutch Institute for responsible medication, chronically ill and disabled Council Netherlands and Dutch Patients Consumers Federation.
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