The impact of a multidisciplinary team intervention on medication prescription in nursing homes in Catalonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In response to the rising population of nursing home residents with frailty and multimorbidity, optimizing medication safety through drug utilization review and addressing medication-related problems (MRPs) is imperative. Clinical decision support systems help reduce medication errors and detect potential MRPs, as well as medication reviews performed by a multidisciplinary team, but these combined assessments are not commonly performed. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact on medication plans of a multidisciplinary team intervention in nursing homes, by analyzing the medication plan before and after the intervention and assessing whether the recommendations given had been implemented.

Methods

A multicenter before-after study, involving five nursi

SUBMITTER: Anderssen-Nordahl E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11427848 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature