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- Title
Long-acting insulin in a public health system: analysis of compliance with clinical protocol in public pharmacies.
- Authors
Uggere de Andrade, Tadeu; Soares Moreira, Fabrício; dos Santos Cassaro, Karla Oliveira; Martins Cruz, Manuela; Alexandre Brasil, Girlandia; de Lima, Ewelyne Miranda; Lenz, Dominik; Coutinho Endringer, Denise
- Abstract
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease marked by elevated blood glucose levels. Controlling DM involves adequate diet, physical exercises, medicines and monitoring the blood glucose and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels. This was a retrospective study of the process of dispensing long-acting insulin analogues to users with diabetes (types 1 and 2) who were registered at high-cost public pharmacies in public health system in a southeast state of Brazil, that sought to evaluate the fulfillment of the criteria of all the clinical protocol to provide these analogs. Of the 987 users registered in the health service, 315 met the inclusion criteria for the study. The evaluation of the dispensing processes of the long-acting insulin analogues revealed that the inclusion, exclusion, and suspension criteria of the protocol related with these insulin analogues were in some extend only partially fulfilled. Additionally, there was no difference between the initial and final fasting glycemic and HbA1c levels. It is concluded that the established criteria for dispensing long-acting insulin analogues were partly fulfilled by pharmacies, compromising the rational use of these analogues. It can directly impact the cost of maintaining the public health service and users' health.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; INSULIN derivatives; MEDICAL protocols; INSULIN; GLYCOSYLATED hemoglobin; BLOOD sugar monitoring; SPECIALTY pharmacies; BLOOD sugar monitors; DRUGSTORES
- Publication
Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 6, p2301
- ISSN
1413-8123
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1413-81232021266.06592019