Groups
RESEARCH GROUPS
Contact information
Itxasne Lekue Alkorta
Itxasne Lekue Alkorta is a Primary Care Pharmacists at the Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces IHO. She is member of the editorial team of the monthly newsletter Pharmacotherapeutic Information Bulletin-INFAC promoted by the Department of Health of the Basque Government, which aims to update pharmacotherapy knowledge among healthcare professionals. She also is member of the i-Botika group, which provides information on drugs to citizens. She has participated in the development of numerous Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Department of Health. She has participated in several research projects related to the good practice in drug prescription. She has extensive experience in the research area of de-implementation of low-value pharmacological prescriptions.
Projects
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De-implementación de prescripciones farmacológicas de escaso valor: proyecto DE-imFAR.
Principal Investigator: José Ignacio Pijoan Zubizarreta
Funding entity: (2026)
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Efectividad de estrategias de de-implementación para favorecer el abandono de prescripciones farmacológicas de bajo valor en prevención primaria de la ECV: proyecto DE-imFAR Fase II.
Principal Investigator: Álvaro Sánchez
Funding entity: (2026)
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Evaluación de las estrategias de de-implementación DE-imFAR para favorecer el abandono de prescripciones farmacológicas de bajo valor en prevención primaria de la enfermedad cardiovascular: ensayo de implementación con métodos mixtos.
Principal Investigator: Itxasne Lecue Alcorta
Funding entity: (2026)
Recent publications
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Fernández-Urrusuno R, Meseguer-Barros CM, García-Gil M, Lekue-Alkorta I, Pina-Gadea MB, Prado-Prieto MA, Alzueta-Isturiz N, Jamart-Sánchez L, Villar-Gómara L, López-Navas A, . Antibiotic Use in the Community in Spain: A National Surveillance System Within the Framework of the Spanish Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance.. Antibiotics (Basel). 2025 Oct;14:. doi:10.3390/antibiotics14111071. Epub 2025 Oct 24. pmc:PMC12649326. PMID:41301567.
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Alonso-González I, Zuriarrain-Alonso M, López-Guridi K, Lara-Esbrí P, Sainz de Rozas R, Lekue I, Barrios-Andrés JL. Impact of an ASP intervention on the request for post-treatment control urine cultures in primary care.. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin (Engl Ed). 2025 Dec;43:652. doi:10.1016/j.eimce.2025.09.012. Epub 2025 Oct 04. PMID:41047285.
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Sanchez A, Pijoan JI, Sainz de Rozas R, Lekue I, San Vicente R, Quindimil JA, Rotaeche R, Etxeberria A, Mozo C, Martinez-Cengotitabengoa M, Monge M, Gómez-Ramírez C, Vivanco L, Martin V, Merino-Inda N, Llarena M, Gonzalez Saenz de Tejada M, Garcia-Alvarez A. Comparative effectiveness of non-reflective and reflective strategies to favor de-implementation of low-value prescribing for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in primary care: the DE-imFAR cluster randomized implementation trial.. Implement Sci Commun. 2026 May;:. doi:10.1186/s43058-026-00968-1. Epub 2026 May 22. PMID:42174713.
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Leiva A, Gallardo Alfaro L, Bejarano F, Sempere E, Soler A, Huguet A, Llarena M, Lekue I, Campabadal Prats C, Salom C, Solaz RB, Socias Cañellas C, Gonzalez A, Campins GM, Vanrell A, Rovira M, Ponsa Mir G, Vicens-Caldentey C, . Study protocol for a hybrid I randomised clinical trial to evaluate an audit and feedback and a pharmacist-led intervention to reduce potentially inappropriate medications in older adults: the AIM study.. BMJ Open. 2026 May;16:e104877. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2025-104877. Epub 2026 May 06. pmc:PMC13158599. PMID:42091156.
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