Medicus, Vol. 27 No. 2 Sumamed, 2018.
Review article
Challenges in Patient-Centric Oral Dosage Form Design – the Example of Sumamed
Ivan Pepić
Jasmina Lovrić
Abstract
Designing patient-centric oral dosage forms is a great challenge and one of the main trends in improving pediatric and geriatric drug delivery strategies. Children and older patients differ in many aspects of medication acceptability from other age groups, thus requiring particular considerations of factors affecting acceptability of dosage forms which can improve the adherence and therapeutic outcomes. The results of recent studies support rational oral dosage form design based on the understanding of factors affecting acceptability. The use of rapidly advancing innovative technologies (such as Sumamed in the form of dispersible tablets) help retain the key advantages of solid dosage forms and at the same time enable easy-to-swallow formulations commonly associated with liquid dosage forms.
Keywords
patient-centric dosage form; dysphagia; easy-to-swallow forms; adherence; therapeutic outcome
Hrčak ID:
214611
URI
Publication date:
31.10.2018.
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