Do drug-administration-assisting devices used by pharmacists improve patients' QOL?

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26670260
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Medical sociology
• Research Institution: Hyogo University of Health Sciences
• Principal Investigator: AMANO Manabu 兵庫医療大学, 薬学部, 教授 (70595644)
• Research Collaborator: MURAKAMI Masahiro 兵庫医療大学, 薬学部, 助教 (40744420) ; KOINUMA Masayoshi 帝京平成大学, 薬学部, 教授 (50385978) ; TORAISHI Kenichi 有限会社復陽薬局, 相談役(薬剤師) ; OHNISHI Hirofumi 株式会社アインファーマシーズ, 大阪支店, 次長(薬剤師)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 3Dプリンタ / 補助器具 / 個別作成 / 最適化 / 薬局で提供

Outline of Final Research Achievements

People receiving pharmacotherapy encounter difficulties associated with various drugs at the time of their administration. In particular, patients receiving pen-type insulin injections are more likely to encounter difficulties because they usually administer these injections by themselves. Therefore, various drug-administration-assisting devices are commercially available and provided by pharmaceutical companies. However, the convenience of drug administration remains insufficiently improved. The reason for the unresolved issues regarding drug administration is that individual approaches (e.g., changing the shape of administration devices) have not been adopted according to the finger shape of patients or how they apply force to such devices. Against this background, we investigated methods to develop individually-tailored assisting devices, as well as strategies to provide these devices through pharmacies.

Free Research Field

医療薬学