Impact of Clinical Pharmacy Guided Patient Counseling and Adherence Support on Renal Transplant Recipients' Adherence and Health Outcomes
Impact of Clinical Pharmacy Guided Patient Counseling and Adherence Support on Renal Transplant Recipients' Adherence and Health Outcomes
As a result of the shortage of donor organs and the close relationship between allograft or even life loss and non-adherence after kidney transplantation, improvement of patient adherence appears essential. So the current study aimed to monitor adherence barriers of renal transplant recipients and evaluate possible consequences of nonadherence on recipients' clinical outcomes as well as to implement a structured adherence management program consisting of intensified patient counselling and adherence support by a dedicated clinical pharmacist as an adjunct to standard post-transplant patient education carried out by transplant physicians to investigate the efficacy of the implemented program on patients adherence and health outcomes as compared to standard physician patient care. The study is a prospective self-controlled interventional study that recruited 69 living donors-renal transplant Patients attending the transplant clinic of Nasser institute and satisfying the inclusion criteria. On enrolment, patient-related baseline data that could determine and affect patients' adherence as well as patients' clinical outcomes were recorded. After all patients received the adjuvant adherence management program by the clinical pharmacist for 6 month, patients' health outcomes were re-evaluated to compare them to baseline data
Inclusion Criteria:
>18 years at least 1 year post-transplant to allow for stabilization of the prescribed immunosuppressant therapy (IST) regimen Independent of others for medication management and willing as well as able to repetitively visit the outpatient clinic for educational training & data collection.
Exclusion Criteria: