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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Medication review"”.
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A DATA-DRIVEN PRIORITIZATION ALGORITHM FOR MEDICATION REVIEW IN OLDER ADULTS: FROM REAL-WORLD EVIDENCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE
… to the risks associated with inappropriate medication use, making them a critical target for preventive strategies aimed at optimizing pharmacotherapy and reducing avoidable harm. Among these measures, periodic implementation of medication review is recommended. However, healthcare …
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A randomised controlled trial comparing two models of medication review in older patients in a community pharmacy setting
… a model of community pharmacy based clinical medication review (CMR) with no access to information from patients’ medical records (active) with a model which had access to information from patients’ medical records (control). Four hundred and eighty patients registered with 20 general …
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Development and Feasibility Testing of a Supervised Pharmacy Student-Led Medication Review of Patients with Diabetes in Primary Care.
… to take their therapy as intended. Whilst medication review provided by pharmacists is designed to address these issues evidence for the effectiveness is weak, and sometimes counterintuitive. Reasons postulated are poor study design, inappropriate intervention location and limited …
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Lääkitystiedon ajantasaistaminen ja lääkityksen turvatarkastus HYKS Syöpäkeskuksessa uro-onkologian poliklinikalla
According to international studies, medication records are often incomplete in hospitals' patient information system. Medication reconciliation is an effective method to prevent medication errors and improve medication safety. A medication review is a useful tool in the assessment of drug-related …
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Medication Cost and Utilization in Hospice Care: An Analysis of 2007 Claims Data
… inpatient unit (IPU) operating costs, and medication expenditures of hospices in Ohio and compare it with NHPCO data.</p><p> 2. Identify and analyze therapeutic drug classes and medications with the most frequent utilization rates and largest percentage of expenditures in hospice …
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Medication use in palliative and end of life care
… advanced cancer are often prescribed complex medication regimens. This makes the process of medicines management (incorporating prescribing, dispensing, adherence and medication review) challenging for this patient population. The overall aim of this thesis was to determine how effectively …
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A Review of Psychotropic drug prescription for patients with Intellectual disability at Alexandra Hospital (a specialist Intellectual Disability psychiatric hospital) outpatient clinic
… assess the prescribing patterns of psychotropic medication to outpatients with intellectual disability at a psychiatric hospital. Setting: Alexandra hospital outpatient clinic, Cape Town. Methods: This was a retrospective folder and prescription chart review. Folders of all new patients (103) …
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What is the Role of a Pharmacist in a Parkinson’s Disease Interdisciplinary Team?
… have in other LTC MDTs by conducting holistic medication reviews. Three new roles were identified for pharmacists in PD IDTs as: 1) independent prescribing, 2) supporting HCPS in their roles by supporting staff knowledge, and 3) leading the PD IDT clinics. Quantitative data showed the …
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What is the Role of a Pharmacist in a Parkinson’s Disease Interdisciplinary Team?
… have in other LTC MDTs by conducting holistic medication reviews. Three new roles were identified for pharmacists in PD IDTs as: 1) independent prescribing, 2) supporting HCPS in their roles by supporting staff knowledge, and 3) leading the PD IDT clinics. Quantitative data showed the …
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A systematic approach to improving pharmacotherapy in the elderly
… first study presented in this thesis showed that medication errors in the transition of care are common. These results contributed to the development of the LIMM-model. The model consists of patient medication interview at admission (including medication reconciliation), medication review during …
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What is the Role of a Pharmacist in a Parkinson’s Disease Interdisciplinary Team?
… have in other LTC MDTs by conducting holistic medication reviews. Three new roles were identified for pharmacists in PD IDTs as: 1) independent prescribing, 2) supporting HCPS in their roles by supporting staff knowledge, and 3) leading the PD IDT clinics. Quantitative data showed the …
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What is the Role of a Pharmacist in a Parkinson’s Disease Interdisciplinary Team?
… have in other LTC MDTs by conducting holistic medication reviews. Three new roles were identified for pharmacists in PD IDTs as: 1) independent prescribing, 2) supporting HCPS in their roles by supporting staff knowledge, and 3) leading the PD IDT clinics. Quantitative data showed the …
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Register-based evaluation of primary care - Focus on chronic disease
… as well as the association of inappropriate medications with the tendency to code for medication reviews. Results: Paying for data entry led to increased coverage, completeness and reliability. Paying for medication review coding was not associated with a greater reduction of inappropriate …
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Fall Prevention Strategies for Home-dwelling Older Adults Aged 65 and over with a Diagnosis of Dementia: A Scoping Review
… et al., 2020; Yeni & Yilmaz, 2022). This scoping review aimed to systematically map and synthesize the existing literature on fall prevention strategies for home-dwelling adults aged 65 and over with a diagnosis of dementia. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria Research studies and gray literature …
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Towards the development of an integrated case-finding tool to facilitate the review of anticholinergic prescribing for frail older people
… to proactively identify at-risk patients for medication reviews. Aim: To explore the need for, and feasibility of, an integrated case-finding tool that predicts risks using electronic health records (EHRs), facilitating the review of anticholinergic medicines for frail older people. Methods: …
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Optimizing transition of care pharmacy services by evaluating medication related readmission risk factors within the heart failure population
… patients. However, no studies have evaluated the medication-related risk factors that present most frequently in readmitted heart failure patients. As the medication experts, pharmacists are in a unique position to intervene and address patients’ medication related risk factors. Multidisciplinary …
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Using the health policy triangle framework to describe local, regional and national healthcare policy changes within Ireland's diverse healthcare settings
… life cycle. Methodologies such as literature reviews, economic evaluations (cost-effectiveness analysis and cost minimisation analysis), and qualitative analysis (using the Framework Approach) helped provide evidence on the health-related policy decisions. Results: The narrative literature …
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Pharmacotherapy in frail older patients in acute care settings: medicines utilisation and optimisation
… decision-making approach and a comprehensive medication review is warranted, including patient assessment and subsequent selection of the optimal treatment regimen. Pharmacists, as medication experts, play an essential role in optimising and ensuring the rational use of medications and …