Wastage of medicines and its financial impact on the healthcare system in the Czech Republic

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62157124:16370/18:43876847

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Wastage of medicines and its financial impact on the healthcare system in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Background: Medication wastage is important factor that contributes to escalating healthcare costs. Medication wastage may be due to poor compliance of patients, excessive and irrational prescribing, or the lack of control of the sales of prescription medications in the community pharmacy. Objective: To describe and analyze the situation regarding the unused medicines from the quantitative, qualitative and financial point of view, their cost to the public healthcare system, and behaviours regarding medication wastage of the Czech population. Method: The analysed material consisted of medicines returned to 66 community pharmacies in the Czech Republic between May 16 and June 29, 2012. Thorough analysis was aimed only at medicinal products. Main outcome measure: The analysis of the returned medicines according to the price, amount, therapeutic group, active substance and brand name. Results: In the analysed material there were 18,890 items. The number of returned medicines was 16,520 products. The total value of these products was calculated at about Czech crowns (CZK) 2.1 mil., approx. Euro (EUR) 82,000. Reimbursement of health insurance companies was about CZK 1.4 mil. (approx. EUR 55,000). The most frequently returned drugs were medicines acting on the cardiovascular system (17.0%). The most frequent active substance was paracetamol, which recurred 405 times. Conclusion: The results about the unused medicines from the quantitative, qualitative and financial perspectives describe the situation not only for medicines policy makers and adjustment of the systems of pricing and reimbursement policies, but also for safer and more effective pharmaceutical care and strengthening of the function of community pharmacies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30104 - Pharmacology and pharmacy

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Česká a slovenská farmacie

ISSN

1210-7816

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

67

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5-6

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

192-199

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85062955030