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Thermolabile drug storage in an ambulatory setting [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2021
More thermolabile drugs are becoming available, and in most cases, these medications are dispensed to ambulatory patients. However, there is no regulation once medications are dispensed to patients and little is known with regard to what happens during ...
Fernando do Pazo-Oubiña, Bartomeu Alorda-Ladaria, Ana Gomez-Lobon, Bàrbara Boyeras-Vallespir, María Margalida Santandreu-Estelrich, Clara Martorell-Puigserver, María Gomez-Zamora, Pere Ventayol-Bosch, Olga Delgado-Sanchez   +8 more
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Older Patients' Compliance with Drug Storage Recommendations. [PDF]

Drugs Aging, 2018
Whereas storage conditions are regulated and closely monitored in every stage of the drug supply chain before drug dispensing, it is unknown if patients store drugs at home according to storage recommendations.The objective of this study was to investigate how older patients store their prescription drugs at home and to what extent they comply with ...
Vlieland ND, van den Bemt BJF, Bekker CL, Bouvy ML, Egberts TCG, Gardarsdottir H.   +5 more
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Assessment of the association between drug disposal practices and drug use and storage behaviors

Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2018
Objective: Keeping unnecessary drugs at home is a situation showing both causes and consequences of irrational use of medicine. This study aimed to evaluate the approaches of a company’s employees regarding drug storage, use, and disposal.
Ahmet Akici, Volkan Aydin, Arzu Kiroglu
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Drug storage, polypharmacy and frailty syndrome in older people: an observational study. [PDF]

Pan Afr Med J, 2023
Introduction the increasing prevalence of polypharmacy in the older population could lead to inappropriate storage of medicines at home. Since polypharmacy is associated with frailty, the main objective of the Karukera Study of Aging - Drug Storage ...
Tabué-Téguo M, Villeneuve R, Helene-Pelage J, Cesari M, Chovino J, Boire A, Dramé M, Simo-Tabué N, Boucaud-Maitre D.   +8 more
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Public Awareness Regarding Household Drug Storage, Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2023
Abir Elghazaly,1 Ghada Ben Salah,2 Nada Ibrahim,1 Saud Alsahali,1 Adel Widyan,3 Ghaida Altheyab,4 Heba AlKhelaiwi,4 Sara Al Mohammdi4 1Department of Pharmacy Practice, Unaizah College of Pharmacy, Qassim University, Qassim, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of ...
Elghazaly A, Ben Salah G, Ibrahim N, Alsahali S, Widyan A, Altheyab G, AlKhelaiwi H, Al Mohammdi S   +7 more
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Review of Drug Storage Conditions, A Case Report. [PDF]

Hosp Pharm, 2023
High temperatures during the summer season are a very important factor to be considered due to their possible influence on drug stability and effectiveness. This is especially important in those patients included in clinical trials, polymedicated or with long-term pharmacological therapies.
Tejedor Tejada E, Gómez Pérez B, Soy Muner D.   +2 more
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Global patterns and determinants of household medicine storage and disposal: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
Background Improper storage and disposal of unused and expired medicines at home have become a global challenge, creating significant hazards to public health and the environment.
Guu Nandar Chit, Su Myat Thin, Anuchai Theeraroungchaisri, Suntaree Watcharadamrongkun, Tanattha Kittisopee   +4 more
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Air Quality Inside Police Drug Safes and Drug Storage Areas [PDF]

Journal of Analytical Toxicology, 2018
Storage of drug-based evidence inside sealed safes may allow chemical vapors to accumulate, creating concerns of drug exposure by inhalation, or the possibility of cross-contamination of drug evidence. Air samples were taken from inside eight drug safes and one small storage room at nine city and country police stations, as well as a large centralized ...
Gregory S Doran, Ralph Deans, Carlo De Filippis, Chris Kostakis, Julia A Howitt   +4 more
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Pattern of Household Drug Storage

Kesmas: National Public Health Journal, 2014
Household storage of pharmaceutical is world-widely practice, including in Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to obtain the pattern of medicine storage, the sources and reasons of medicine kept in households. Acrosssectional survey was conducted on October 2011, involving 250 adult household respondents, randomly selected from three subdistricts ...
R. Gitawati
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Awareness of home drug storage and utilization habits: Saudi study

Medicine Science, 2018
The aim of the study was to investigate the awareness of residents in Saudi Arabia toward in-home drug storage and the using habits of their medications.
Marwa Ibrahim Koshok, Thuraiya khairllah Jan, Samia Mohammad AL-tawil, Ebtesam Abdulrhaman Alghamdi, Ahmed A H Ali, Ahmed H. M. Sobh, Mohamed E.A. Abdelrahim Mohammed Gamal   +6 more
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