Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacoepidemiology (IPSUM)
Our research focus is to promote correct use of medicines at individual and societal level
Our resent projects has documented:
- Improved patient outcomes after compliance to guidelines on antibacterial treatment of community acquired pneumonia
- Improper prescribing to the elderly
- A large proportion of patients with coronary artery disease do not achieve the therapeutic goals
- Up to 80% of drug lists in hospitals are incorrect
- High prevalence of drug-related problems
- Low quality of information of medicine use after hospital discharge
- Unnecessary use of dietary supplements
- Hormonal contraceptive use and association to nose carriage of Staphylococcus aureus
- Low dose naltrexone and concomitant use of other medicines
- Antibiotic consumption over the last years in children under 3 years is more pronounced in municipalities where higher proportions of the inhabitants have education above secondary school
- Macula layer thickness is associated to cardivascular risk factors