Problemas relacionados con los medicamentos detectados en el área de pediatría aplicando el seguimiento farmacoterapéutico basado en la metodología dáder.

Abstract

Throughout the times worldwide, medicines have become indispensable to treat diseases and cure ailments in a population, from this arises the need to create a pharmacotherapeutic follow-up, developed in Spain, based on the Dáder methodology, to record information and therefore determine the problems related to the medicines that arise when administering a drug to the patient , and in this way be able to keep an appropriate record of them. The objective of the following study is to analyze drug-related problems in patients in a hospital's Pediatrics Service by applying the Dáder methodology for identifying factors and causes linked to PRMs. A bibliographic study based on the analysis of scientific articles was carried out, highlighting the benefits of pharmacotherapeutic monitoring through the Dáder methodology, showing the results of 5 studies carried out; concluding that the application of pharmacotherapeutic follow-up using the Dáder Methodology, has an impact on more active and participatory pharmaceutical care to detect, prevent and solve drug-related problems, which are based on the criteria of effectiveness, safety and necessity. The most common in paediatric patients are: errors in the routes of administration, medicines that are not needed and incorrect dosing, because being paediatric patients should be calculated their dose in relation to their weight and size to achieve correct pharmacotherapy and prevent PRM.