Developing a framework for a novel multi-disciplinary, multi-agency intervention(s), to improve medication management in community-dwelling older people on complex medication regimens (MEMORABLE)--a realist synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medication-related adverse events have been estimated to be responsible for 5700 deaths and cost the UK £750 million annually. This burden falls disproportionately on older people. Outcomes from interventions to optimise medication management are caused by multiple context-sensitive mechanisms. The MEdication Management in Older people: REalist Approaches BAsed on Literature and Evaluation (MEMORABLE) project uses realist synthesis to understand how, why, for whom and in what context interventions, to improve medication management in older people on complex medication regimes residing in the community, work.

Method

This realist synthesis uses secondary data and primary data from interviews to develop the programme theory. A realist logic of analysis will synthesis

SUBMITTER: Maidment I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5496371 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature