Medication Adherence Issues to Inhaled Therapy and Their Impact on Lung Diseases
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmaceutical Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 7039
Special Issue Editors
Interests: dry powder for inhalation; nanomedicine; cancer; asthma; COPD; lung infections; controlled release; targeting
Interests: medication review; medication adherence; community pharmacy; clinical pharmacy; drug-related problems; implementation science
Interests: dry powder inhaler; particle engineering; inhalation therapy; high drug dose
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Dear Colleagues,
“In lung diseases that require chronic treatment such as asthma, COPD or cystic fibrosis, adherence to inhaled treatments is often poor, leading to poor disease control and exacerbations. Moreover, adherence to the maintenance treatment is more difficult as the patient does not directly feel the benefits on their health status. Moreover, the healthcare professional prescribes the more appropriate medicine for the patient according to the recommendations, but this is sometimes not understandable or not always the easiest for the patient.
Therefore, new strategies to increase adherence are necessary first by identifying the reasons behind a prescription, developing an algorithm to help healthcare professionals in the prescribing procedure, and developing innovative devices and formulations that reduce the adherence problems.
In this Special Issue, the aim is to present articles exploring or reviewing the causes of poor adherence and promising solutions in terms of algorithms, devices, or formulations to overcome them. Patient preferences for a device could include different factors, such as device handling, feedback, and remaining doses/end of product indication, as well as the age of the patient and the disease that they have. Moreover, the device/formulation requires being robust to the patient’s use (inspiratory airflow, inhalation technique, hand–mouth coordination, time of delivery, throughout the product use life) as well as the environmental conditions (temperature and humidity).
This Special Issue aims to cover the main aspects of adherence issues via research articles, reviews, as well as communication, opinions, or brief reports from medical and pharmaceutical experts from academia, industry, and healthcare.”
Dr. Nathalie Wauthoz
Prof. Dr. Carine De Vriese
Prof. Dr. Francesca Buttini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adherence
- healthcare
- device
- dry powder for inhalation
- pressurized metered device for inhalation
- dry powder inhaler
- inhalation technique
- algorithm
- device handling
- feedback
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