Development of a patient-centred medication management model for polymedicated home-dwelling older adults after hospital discharge: results of a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to investigate medication management among polymedicated, home-dwelling older adults after discharge from a hospital centre in French-speaking Switzerland and then develop a model to optimise medication management and prevent adverse health outcomes associated with medication-related problems (MRPs).

Design

Explanatory, sequential, mixed methods study based on detailed quantitative and qualitative findings reported previously.

Setting

Hospital and community healthcare in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Participants

The quantitative strand retrospectively examined 3 years of hospital electronic patient records (n=53 690 hospitalisations of inpatients aged 65 years or older) to identify the different profiles of those at risk o

SUBMITTER: Pereira F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10514617 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature