Development of a standardized chart review method to identify drug-related hospital admissions in older people.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

We aimed to develop a standardized chart review method to identify drug-related hospital admissions (DRA) in older people caused by non-preventable adverse drug reactions and preventable medication errors including overuse, underuse and misuse of medications: the DRA adjudication guide.

Methods

The DRA adjudication guide was developed based on design and test iterations with international and multidisciplinary input in four subsequent steps: literature review; evaluation of content validity using a Delphi consensus technique; a pilot test; and a reliability study.

Results

The DRA adjudication guide provides definitions, examples and step-by-step instructions to measure DRA. A three-step standardized chart review method was elaborated including: (i) data abstracti

SUBMITTER: Thevelin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6177723 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature