Integration of an electronic Drug Burden Index risk assessment tool into Home Medicines Reviews: deprescribing anticholinergic and sedative medications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our aim in this research was to establish whether integrating an electronically generated calculation and report on the Drug Burden Index (DBI) in the Home Medicines Review (HMR) setting is an accurate, feasible and useful risk assessment tool to assess risk of anticholinergic and sedative medications; and to establish whether the intervention of DBI together with HMR is associated with a reduced use of anticholinergic and sedative medications in older community-dwelling adults in Australia.

Methods

An interventional feasibility study was conducted. Accredited clinical pharmacists (APs) were recruited to participate. Each AP was educated on implementation of the DBI into HMR practice and given access to the DBI Calculator© web-based software to generate the DBI re

SUBMITTER: Kouladjian O'Donnell L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6402056 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature