Medication Use Quality and Safety in Older Adults: 2018 Update.

ABSTRACT: Improving the quality of medication use and medication safety is an important priority for prescribers who care for older adults. The objective of this article was to identify key articles from 2018 that address these issues. In addition, we selected four of these articles to annotate, critique, and discuss their broader implications for clinical practice. The first study highlights a cluster-randomized trial that utilized a pharmacist-led education-based intervention delivered to both patients and physicians to deprescribe four types of inappropriate medications (sedative-hypnotics, first-generation antihistamines, selective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and glyburide). The second study, a nested case-control study using data from within the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink,

SUBMITTER: Ailabouni NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7211086 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature