T2 - Week 5 Flashcards
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990?
- Enacted by federal gov to improve understanding of medications by Medicaid beneficiares
- Allows states to create drug utilization review boards to manage purchasing and formulary decisions for state programs
What responsibilities are placed on pharmacists by Omnibus?
- Perform prospective DUR
- Provide patient counseling
- Maintain proper patient records
What are the components of OBRA?
- Prospective DUR
- Patient counseling
- Maintaining records
What is prospective DUR?
Is the prescription necessary and appropriate
What is the importance of patient counseling?
Making sure a patient is administering the drug correctly or having any side effects
Why is it important to maintain records?
Records but remain accurate and up-to-date
What are the factors of OBRA counseling?
- Patient counseling should be in person
- No cost to patient
- Written information may supplement patient counseling, but cannot substitute
What are the causes of opting out of counseling?
- Patient or caregiver refuses
- Counseling may be detrimental to patient’s care
- Patient is in a healthcare facility
- Practitioner specifies there is to be no patient counseling
Why is patient counseling important?
- Inappropriate medication use is costly
- Outcome-based reimbursement
- Patient have a right to know how to use their medications to achieve the best outcome
- Patient safety
- Improve therapy adherence
- Legal liability
What type of information should be included on a pharmacist professional judgment?
- Medication name
- Medication use and expected benefit and action
- Medication route, dosage form, and site of administration
- Action to be taken in case of missed dose
- Adverse effects
- Self-monitoring techniques
- Drug-drug interactions
- Refill authorizations
- Proper storage
What are tips for patient counseling?
- Collect medical history
- Perform DUR
- Warn patient of unacceptable, recognized, and medically significant risk of serious harm or death to the patient
- Think patient safety first
- Take your time to counsel
What are the steps of the patient counseling process?
- Prepare
- Assess
- Counsel
- Document
How do we prepare for patient counseling?
- Prescription
- Patient profile
- Personal Knowledge
- Prepare mentally
How do we assess for patient counseling?
- Physical, sensory, and/or cognitive impairments
- Ability and willingness to use medication
- Knowledge about his/her health problems
- Disease and medication management
- Cultural barriers
- Literacy issues
- Emotional or functional barriers
- Non-verbal ques
How do we counsel in patient counseling?
- Open-ended questions
- Probing
- Reflectie listening
- Summarization
- Empathy