Medication reviews for nursing home residents to reduce mortality and hospitalization: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Medication reviews by a third party have been introduced as a method to improve drug treatment in older people. We assessed whether this intervention reduces mortality and hospitalization for nursing home residents.

Methods

Systematic literature searches were performed (from January 1990 to June 2012) in Medline, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Sources and Health Technology Assessment databases. We included randomized and nonrandomized controlled trials (RCTs and non-RCTs) of medication reviews compared with standard care or other types of medication reviews in nursing home residents. The outcome variables were mortality and hospitalization. Study quality was assessed systematically. We performed meta-analyses using random-effects models.

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SUBMITTER: Wallerstedt SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4243900 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature