FACULTAD DE FARMACIA Y BIOQUÍMICA i RESUMEN Los estudios de utilización de medicamentos se han convertido en una herramienta útil para determinar cuáles son los patrones, perfiles y otras características de uso en la práctica clínica de los medicamentos y en especial de los antimicrobianos, cuyo uso inadecuado está llevando al incremento de la resistencia antibacteriana. En el presente trabajo se ha realizado un estudio de consumo de un antimicrobiano de reserva como es la vancomicina, con la finalidad de aportar información acerca de cómo ha ido evolucionando el consumo de este antimicrobiano a nivel hospitalario durante los años 2009-2011. Se realizó un estudio observacional de tipo descriptivo-retrospectivo. Se utilizó la metodología ATC/DDD para el cálculo de consumo de vancomicina 500mg. en los servicios de Cirugía, Medicina, UCI y UCIN y se calculó el valor del con...

ABSTRACT The Pharmacist of the pharmaceutical office has an important role in patient orientation regarding the proper use of their medications, being necessary to provide tools that support their training. To meet this need, the present study was proposed whose objective was to design and apply a clinical practice guide for the management of drug interactions from the pharmaceutical office. The study was developed in three phases; First phase: information was collected on the knowledge of twenty Pharmacists from the pharmaceutical office about drug interactions through a test and a survey and from this criteria were taken to design the guide; second phase: the guide was designed based on reliable scientific evidence, which was evaluated by experts; third phase: this guide was applied in a pharmaceutical office after training the Pharmacist and the identified potential drug interactions ...

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic and multiform, currently regarded as a public health problem, but at the same time the disease is largely preventable. For prevention of the disease have educational needs of communities, in order to keep them informed to control and prevent chronic diseases. To meet these needs was carried out The Pharmaceutical Education Intervention in the Centro Poblado "Ramón Castilla", District of Huanchaco, Province of Trujillo, La Libertad Department, The methodology was developed by educational talks about Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, aimed at increasing the level of knowledge a sample of 40 participants, about risk factors, complications and treatment to promote the prevention of this disease; the data collection was performed by applying a test before (pre-test) and after (post-test) of the intervention. To determine the statistical differences between the t...