Piotr Merks, Beata Chełstowska, Urszula Religioni, Agnieszka Neumann-Podczaska, Zbigniew Krasiński, Adam Kobayashi, Katarzyna Plagens-Rotman, Ewelina Drelih, Katarina Fehir-Sola, Łukasz Fijałkowski, Izabela Baj, Regis Vaillancourt, Katarzyna Wieczorowska-Tobis, Agnieszka Mastalerz-Migas, Mark Koziol, Jarosław Pinkas, Filip M Szymański, Dagmara Hering
New Medicine Service (NMS) components are an important element to improve patient compliance with medical recommendations. NMS provides support to patients prescribed new medicines, helping them to manage long-term conditions. The purpose of this service is to provide patients with advice, guidelines, and educational materials regarding the use of new medicines to increase patient compliance and therapy safety. The NMS has already been introduced in many European countries. This review aims to identify the benefits and potential barriers to implementing the NMS in community pharmacies and to suggest solutions that would increase its effectiveness...
March 3, 2024: Medical Science Monitor: International Medical Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research