Medication use quality and safety in older adults: 2020 update.

ABSTRACT: Improving the quality of medication use and medication safety are important priorities for prescribers who care for older adults. The objective of this article was to identify four exemplary articles with this focus in 2020. We selected high-quality studies that moved the field of research forward and were not merely replication studies. The chosen articles cover domains related to deprescribing, medication safety, and optimizing medication use. The first study, a noninferiority randomized clinical trial in England, evaluated whether antihypertensive medication reduction is possible without significant changes in systolic blood pressure control or adverse events over the 12-week follow-up (domain: deprescribing). The second study, a prospective cohort study of women at Kaiser Permanente So

SUBMITTER: Eshetie TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8821136 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature