BACKGROUND Hypertension control is a challenge globally. Barriers to optimal control exist at the patient, physician, and health system levels. Patient-related barriers in our environment are not clear. The aim of this study was to identify patient-related barriers to control of hypertension among adults with hypertension in a semiurban community in South-East Nigeria. METHODS This was a cros...

Introduction: Multi-disciplinary healthcare providers need to move beyond task-based responsibility towards a more collaborative approach. Chronic childhood diseases such as bronchial asthma demands effective multidisciplinary team collaboration improve patient care. Objective: We aimed examine the interprofessional between physicians and pharmacists in management of paediatric asthm, explore v...

Purpose: High alert medications are enlightened as those medicines that bear the maximum threat of causing major patient harm when administered incorrectly. Nurses accountable for administration high medication; inappropriate can show a substantial clinical result and at times be deadly patients. Alert Medication is commonly used in emergency room, intensive care unit, pediatric ward medical wa...

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED Medication prescribing is becoming increasingly complex, and the need for formal curricula in pharmacotherapeutics and medication prescribing in accredited family medicine residency programs has been advocated. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM The main objective of the pharmacotherapeutic curriculum is to support the development of family medicine residents' pharmacotherapeutic kn...

BACKGROUND There is an urgent need to improve patient safety in the area of medication treatment among the elderly. The aim of this study was to explore which improvement needs and strengths, relating to medication safety, arise from a multi-professional intervention in primary care and further to describe and follow up on the agreements for change that were established within the intervention....

BACKGROUND Primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) is a rare and severe condition requiring lifelong steroid replacement. During acute illness or stressful events, it is important to appropriately adjust glucocorticoid dose; failure to do so may lead to an adrenal crisis. The aim of the study was to explore patients PAI knowledge and understanding of the condition, steroid replacement adjustment du...