Variabilidad de la prestación farmacéutica a centros sociosanitarios residenciales desde los servicios de farmacia de hospital

Objective: To analyse the situation and the possible variability of  pharmaceutical provision to public nursing homes included in the “Project  pilot” from hospital pharmacy services of the Andalusian Health Service. Method: Cross-sectional multicenter study. A questionnaire of 36 questions including: nursing homes characteristics, legislation,  pharmacotherapeutic guide and prescription, preparation and transport,  dispensation, administration, pharmaceutical activity and healthcare data. Results: We included 13 nursing homes. Everyone had a medicines store. All  dispensed in individualized unit dose. Three nursing homes did not have  a work space for the pharmacist. The pharmacist did not move to the nursing  home in three of them. Conclusions: Although there is some variability in the pharmaceutical provision to nursing homes included in the “Pilot Project”, we  have identified strengths such as the dispensing of medicines as unit  dose system and opportunities to improve such as the increase of the  pharmacist’s presence in nursing homes.