Safe Medication in Nursing Home Residents Through the Development and Evaluation of an Intervention (SAME): Protocol for a Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Study With a Cocreative Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medication safety is increasingly challenging patient safety in growing aging populations. Developing positive patient safety cultures is acknowledged as a primary goal to improve patient safety, but evidence on the interventions to do so is inconclusive. Nursing home residents are often cognitively and physically impaired and are therefore highly reliant on frontline health care providers. Thus, interventions to improve medication safety of nursing home residents through patient safety culture among providers are needed. Using cocreative partnerships, integrating knowledge of residents and their relatives, and ensuring managerial support could be beneficial.

Objective

The primary aim of the Safe Medication of Nursing Home Residents Through Development and Evaluat

SUBMITTER: Juhl MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10131653 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature