Effect of a Pharmacist-Led Educational Intervention on Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions in Older Adults
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A consumer-targeted, pharmacist-led, educational intervention to reduce inappropriate medication use in community older adults (D-PRESCRIBE trial): study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND Medication safety for older persons represents an ongoing challenge. Inappropriate prescriptions--those with a high risk of evidence-based harm--persist in up to 25% of seniors, and account for a significant proportion of avoidable emergency department visits. This project is the sequel to the EMPOWER study, in which a novel consumer-targeted written knowledge transfer tool aimed at ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2018.16131