{"title":"[Morbi-mortality of lower respiratory tract infections and vaccination].","authors":"Manuel García Cenoz, Iván Martínez Baz","doi":"10.23938/ASSN.1063","DOIUrl":"10.23938/ASSN.1063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":500996,"journal":{"name":"Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra","volume":"46 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10807199/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139038375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea Rodríguez Esquíroz, Lorea Sanz Álvarez, Marta Marín Marín, Patricia García González, Paula Aldave Cobos, Javier Garjón Parra
{"title":"[Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir drug-drug interactions in primary care outpatients].","authors":"Andrea Rodríguez Esquíroz, Lorea Sanz Álvarez, Marta Marín Marín, Patricia García González, Paula Aldave Cobos, Javier Garjón Parra","doi":"10.23938/ASSN.1056","DOIUrl":"10.23938/ASSN.1056","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The oral antiviral nirmatrelvir/ritonavir interacts with a range of drugs. Candidate patients to receive this antiviral agent are usually vulnerable, multipathological and polymedicated. The objective is to evaluate the pharmaceutical validation prior to the administration of the antiviral.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Drug-drug interactions between nirmatrelvir/ritonavir and patients' usual treatment medications were checked in product information and in the UpToDate® and the University of Liverpool® interaction tools. We included validated prescriptions between April/2022 and April/2023 by a Primary Care pharmacist.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 159 study patients, 168 interactions were found in 83 individuals, which may have led to changes of their usual treatment. Statins (25.6%), anticoagulants (10.7%), and antihypertensives (10.7%) were the most frequently implicated therapeutic groups. Discontinuation (53.0%) and dose reduction (22.6%) were the most common treatment changes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our search of potential drug interactions and subsequent dose adjustments and modifications of the patient's usual treatment has helped avoid potential toxicities ensuring a safe use of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir.</p>","PeriodicalId":500996,"journal":{"name":"Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra","volume":"46 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10807205/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139038376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Josep-Oriol Casanovas-Marsal, Elisa Viladés Palomar, Francisco de Asís Bartol-Puyal, Rubén Hernández Vian, Luis E Pablo Júlvez
{"title":"[Relationship between treatment and cost with visual acuity improvement\u0000in age-related macular degeneration].","authors":"Josep-Oriol Casanovas-Marsal, Elisa Viladés Palomar, Francisco de Asís Bartol-Puyal, Rubén Hernández Vian, Luis E Pablo Júlvez","doi":"10.23938/ASSN.1052","DOIUrl":"10.23938/ASSN.1052","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>We examined the relationship between visual acuity changes (VA) and the cost of care and treatment with anti-vascular endothelial growth factors (antiVEGF) in patients diagnosed with age-related exudative macular degeneration (exudative AMD).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Observational, longitudinal, retrospective study of patients ≥50 years of age diagnosed with exudative AMD, with a log-MAR VA between 0.6 and 0.06. and 0.06. Follow-up and treatment were done in our tertiary hospital between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2018.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study included 778 patients; 62.2% female and mean age 79.83±7.94 years; 957 eyes had exudative AMD. Mean of final VA (0.65±0.45) increasing 3.2% compared to initial values. Ranibizumab was administered to 60.3% of the eyes, aflibercept to 10.2% and ranibizumab + aflibercept (mixed group) to 29.5%. Significant increase in VA was seen in the group with the mixed treatment, with no inter-group differences. Although follow-up/treatment was longer for the mixed group, they received fewer anti-VEGF injections and optical coherence tomography (OCT). The total expenditure per year and treated eye was € 1,972.7±824.5; costs were higher for visit, OCT, and treatment in the aflibercept group, and lower for fluorescein angiography, antiVEGF treatment, and total costs in the mixed group. Decimal VA gain had a cost of € 872±1,077.7 with no significant inter-group differences.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>AntiVEGF treatments (ranibizumab, aflibercept, or both) maintained VA in patients with exudative AMD. Overall, care and treatment costs were lower in the group that received both drugs.</p>","PeriodicalId":500996,"journal":{"name":"Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra","volume":"46 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10783600/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138441956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}