Barriers and Facilitators of Conducting Medication Reviews in Nursing Home Residents: A Qualitative Study

Barriers and Facilitators of Conducting Medication Reviews in Nursing Home Residents: A Qualitative Study

Objectives: Inappropriate medication prescribing is a recognized clinical problem in nursing home residents of whom many have polypharmacy. However, results about the effectiveness of medication reviews targeted at improving prescribing and deprescribing have been equivocal. We therefore examined ba...

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Main Authors: Hans Wouters, Juliet M. Foster, Anne Ensink, Lisa Kouladjian O’Donnell, Sytse U. Zuidema, Froukje Boersma, Katja Taxis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Pharmacology
Subjects:
polypharmacy
inappropriate prescribing
semi-structured interviews
deprescribing
geriatrics
qualitative study
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphar.2019.01026/full

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