Implementation of interprofessional quality circles on deprescribing in Swiss nursing homes: an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) are still frequent among older adults in nursing homes. Deprescribing is an intervention that has been shown to be effective in reducing their use. However, the implementation of deprescribing in clinical practice has not yet been widely evaluated. The Quality Circle Deprescribing Module (QC-DeMo) intervention has been trialled through an effectiveness-implementation hybrid type 2 design. The intervention consists of a quality circle workshop session between healthcare professionals HCPs (physicians, nurses, and pharmacists) within a nursing home, in which they define a consensus to deprescribe specific PIMs classes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementation of the QC-DeMo intervention in nursin

SUBMITTER: Mena S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10548671 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature