@article{10902/30416,
year = {2023},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/30416},
abstract = {The electronic prescription refill rate (EPRR) of 183 consecutive patients was determined over a 19-month retrospective study period, divided into 7 months PRE (Sep-19 to Mar-20) and 12 months POST pandemic (Apr-20 to Mar-21), in order to compare adherence to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in patients with asthma prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the pandemic (PRE), an average of 0.58 inhalers/month were refill from the pharmacy; [SD 0.33], very similar to the 0.59 inhalers/month; [SD 0.34] retrieved during the 12 subsequent months since the pandemic (POST) (p=0.768). EPRR showed no differences (p=0.784). When EPRR was dichotomous or ordinal categorised no differences were found either (p=0.851 and 0.928), even when McNemar's test was used (p=0.949), with prevalences of nonadherence (EPRR < 80%) of 57 and 58% respectively. Our results do not support increased adherence to inhaler treatment in terms of EPRR, comparing before and since COVID-19 pandemic. Compliance with prescription remains suboptimal.},
organization = {Acknowledgements. We thank all the ACINAR-REFARMA study collaborators (the list of members is placed in the Supplementary Information).
Funding. Te study was supported in part by an unrestricted grant from TEVA Respiratory (Spain) to the Cantabrian Association for Research in the Respiratory System (Asociación Cántabra de investigación en aparato respiratorio (ACINAR). Te sponsor had no role in the design of this study or in the analyses, data interpretation, and decision to submit results.},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
publisher = {Scientific Reports, 2023, 13,13086},
title = {Adherence to inhaled corticosteroids in patients with asthma prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic},
author = {Rodríguez, Isabel and López-Caro, Juan Carlos and González-Carranza, Silvia and Cerrato, María Elena and De Prado, María Mar and Gómez-Molleda, Francisca and Pinel, Margarita and Saiz, María Teresa and Fuentes, Carmen and Barreiro, Esther and Santibáñez Margüello, Miguel},
}