Medication Adherence and Health Outcomes: A Public Health Perspective

Medicine is a two-edged sword: while it can treat a patient's illness, when applied carelessly, it also has the potential to do more harm than good. Ensuring that patients receive appropriate medication for their clinical condition at the appropriate time, by the appropriate channel, and in the appropriate doses should be the top priority for any healthcare system. Polypharmacy can be helpful because numerous morbidities are common, but it can also have unintended harmful effects. The co-morbidity-polypharmacy score uses the patient's physiological age rather than their chronological age to predict how their therapy will turn out. Any departure from the medication's intended therapeutic impact may be regarded as a drug-related issue. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of clinical pharmacist interventions on drug-related issues in prescriptions for polypharmacy as well as the cost-benefit analysis of clinical pharmacy services. The particular goals were to recognise and address drug-related issues, find out how well health care providers received clinical pharmacist interventions, analyse the cost-benefit of clinical pharmacy services, and create and suggest a clinical pharmacists intervention form to standardise and record drug-related issues.