Feasibility of a pharmacist-facilitated medicines review intervention for community-dwelling Maori older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pharmacist-facilitated medicines review services have been postulated as a way to address current inequities in health outcomes between Māori and non-Māori. These interventions have been shown internationally to improve the appropriate use of medicines but remain underutilised in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). By reviewing the literature and engaging with key stakeholders, we developed an intervention, which included collaborative goal-setting, education and medicines optimisation, for testing in a feasibility study.

Objective

To determine the feasibility (recruitment, intervention delivery, and data collection methods) of a pharmacist-facilitated medicines review intervention for Māori older adults, and proposed intervention outcomes.

Methods

This study was re

SUBMITTER: Hikaka J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9031728 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature