Classification system for primary care provider eConsults about medications for older adults with frailty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing primary care for people with frailty can be challenging due to an increased risk of adverse outcomes and use of potentially inappropriate medications which may exacerbate characteristics of frailty. eConsult is a service where primary care providers can receive timely specialist advice for their patients through a secure web-based application. We aimed to develop a classification system to characterize medication-focused eConsult questions for older adults with frailty and assess its usability.

Methods

A classification system was developed and refined over three cycles of improvement through a cross-sectional study of 35 cases categorized as medication-focused from cases submitted in 2019 for patients aged 65 or older with frailty through the Champlain B

SUBMITTER: Schneider T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10985926 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature