Pharmaceutical care applied to women with breast cancer in Primary Health Care

• Autor(a) principal: Alberti, Fernanda Fávero
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Cardoso, Manuela Borges Sangoi, Canterle, Liana Pedrolo, Donini, Eduardo Kraetzig
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde (Santa Maria)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistasaude/article/view/29900
• topic: Pharmacotherapeutic follow-up; Clinical Pharmacy; Cancer patients; assistência; oncologia; farmácia clínica.

Pharmaceutical care is a pharmacotherapeutic monitoring tool widely used in various health settings. The objective of this research was to perform the pharmacotherapeutic follow-up of female patients belonging to a breast cancer support group - Ellas Group -, linked to the Primary Health Care of a city in the central-western region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. followup methodology was performed according to the Dáder Method. Eighteen non-pharmacological interventions were performed for the study patients, after being submitted there are an average of three pharmaceutical consultations with each patient. The mean age of the study participants was 54.1 years (SD = 8.2). The mean age of menopause was 44.4 years (SD = 8.2) and the age of menarche was 13.2 years (SD = 2.0). Three drug-related problems and nine negative drug outcomes were identified. In agreement with the proposed objective, it was verified how important it is to institute in the pharmaceutical practice the tools of care and pharmacotherapeutic monitoring in different clinical scenarios.