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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (11): 1197-1202.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2019.11.010

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Application of closed-loop management in safe drug administration among elderly tuberculosis patients

ZHANG Ning,MA Yun,WANG Rong,CUI Bei,LIU Li()   

  1. The Fifth Internal Medicine, Shaanxi Provincial Tuberculosis Hospital,Xi’an 710100, China
  • Received:2019-09-14 Online:2019-11-10 Published:2019-12-05

Abstract:

Objective To analyze the application effect of using closed-loop management for safe drug administration among elderly tuberculosis patients.Methods Three hundred and two elderly patients with pulmonary tuberculosis treated in Shaanxi Provincial Tuberculosis Hospital from January 1, 2017 to December 30, 2017 were enrolled as control group, for whom situation of medication non-compliance in the course of treatment were investigated. 295 elderly patients with pulmonary tuberculosis treated from January 1, 2018 to December 30, 2018 were enrolled as observation group. Closed-loop management was implemented on the observation group to correct those medication non-compliances found in the control group which included establishing drug safety management protocol and implementing management, evaluating the effect of the implementation, analyzing problems existing during the safe medication management process, and rectifying and tracking problems found. The compliance of taking medicine, the incidence and detection rate of adverse drug reactions were compared between those two groups.Results In observation group, 95.60% (282/295) patients took medicine timely, and the detection rate of adverse drug reactions was 92.11% (105/114), both of them were higher than that in control group (medicine taking correctness 74.83%(226/302), detection rate 76.74% (99/129)).Those differences were statistically significant (χ 2=50.694,10.599, P=0.000, 0.001). The difference of the incidence of adverse drug reactions rate in two group was not statistically significant (observation group 38.64% (114/295), control group 42.72% (129/302), χ 2=1.025,P=0.311).Conclusion Closed-loop management can improve the compliance of medicine taking. It has no effect on the incidence of adverse drug reactions but can improve the detection rate, and increase the safety of medication among elderly patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.

Key words: Tuberculosis, pulmonary, Medication reconciliation, Health services for the aged, Medication therapy management, Data interpretation, statistical