Mindset for Pharmacists as an Expert of Pharmacotherapy-Case of Home-Care Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with Multiple Diseases
Kawana, M.; Hatsuta, M.; Hirohara, M.; Kushida, K.
Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer and ChemoTherapy 46(Suppl 1): 93-96
2019
ISSN/ISBN: 0385-0684 PMID: 31189867 Document Number: 698642
The number of older adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis(RA)is increasing. As older adult patients tend to have multiple diseases requiringmedications, they are likely to experience side effects from the decline in their physiological functioning. In addition, suppression of disease activity leads to a decline in ADL in the case of patients livingalone, even leadingto difficulties in livingat home. In the 3-years clinical course on older adult RA patients livingalone with multiple diseases, we show the mindset that community pharmacists must have for three events(namely, hypoalbuminemia, chronic heart failure, and dehydration)in which inflammation influences medicinal or side effects.