Improving inappropriate medication and information transfer at hospital discharge: study protocol for a cluster RCT.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inappropriate medication and polypharmacy increase morbidity, hospitalisation rate, costs and mortality in multimorbid patients. At hospital discharge of elderly patients, polypharmacy is often even more pronounced than at admission. However, the optimal discharge strategy in view of sustained medication appropriateness remains unclear. In particular, unreflectingly switching back to the pre-hospitalisation medication must be avoided. Therefore, both the patients and the follow-up physicians should be involved in the discharge process. In this study, we aim to test whether a brief medication review which takes the patients' priorities into account, combined with a standardised communication strategy at hospital discharge, leads to sustained medication appropriateness and

SUBMITTER: Grischott T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6309068 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature