Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people

A Rankin, CA Cadogan, SM Patterson… - Cochrane Database …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Inappropriate polypharmacy is a particular concern in older people and is
associated with negative health outcomes. Choosing the best interventions to improve …

Interventions for improving medication‐taking ability and adherence in older adults prescribed multiple medications

AJ Cross, RA Elliott, K Petrie… - Cochrane Database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Older people taking multiple medications represent a large and growing
proportion of the population. Managing multiple medications can be challenging, and this is …

Deprescribing education vs usual care for patients with cognitive impairment and primary care clinicians: the OPTIMIZE pragmatic cluster randomized trial

EA Bayliss, SM Shetterly, ML Drace… - JAMA internal …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Background Individuals with dementia or mild cognitive impairment frequently have multiple
chronic conditions (defined as≥ 2 chronic medical conditions) and take multiple …

GP-delivered medication review of polypharmacy, deprescribing, and patient priorities in older people with multimorbidity in Irish primary care (SPPiRE Study): A …

C McCarthy, B Clyne, F Boland, F Moriarty… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background There is a rising prevalence of multimorbidity, particularly in older patients, and
a need for evidence-based medicines management interventions for this population. The …

Recommendations for outcome measurement for deprescribing intervention studies

EA Bayliss, K Albers, K Gleason… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Interpreting results from deprescribing interventions to generate actionable evidence is
challenging owing to inconsistent and heterogeneous outcome definitions between studies …

[HTML][HTML] Deprescribing medicines in older people living with multimorbidity and polypharmacy: the TAILOR evidence synthesis

J Reeve, M Maden, R Hill, A Turk… - Health Technology …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Tackling problematic polypharmacy requires tailoring the use of medicines
to individual needs and circumstances. This may involve stop** medicines (deprescribing) …

[HTML][HTML] Multimorbidity patterns in the general population: results from the EpiChron cohort study

I Ioakeim-Skoufa, B Poblador-Plou… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The correct management of patients with multimorbidity remains one of the main challenges
for healthcare systems worldwide. In this study, we analyze the existence of multimorbidity …

[HTML][HTML] In simulated data and health records, latent class analysis was the optimum multimorbidity clustering algorithm

L Nichols, T Taverner, F Crowe, S Richardson… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objectives To investigate the reproducibility and validity of latent
class analysis (LCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), multiple correspondence …

Factors associated with the use of potentially inappropriate medications by older adults in primary health care: An analysis comparing AGS Beers, EU (7)-PIM List, and …

TA Almeida, EA Reis, IVL Pinto, MGB Ceccato… - Research in Social and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) for the older adults are those with
an unfavorable risk-benefit ratio when more effective and safe therapeutic alternatives are …

Evaluation of the General Practice Pharmacist (GPP) intervention to optimise prescribing in Irish primary care: a non-randomised pilot study

K Cardwell, SM Smith, B Clyne, L McCullagh… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective Limited evidence suggests integration of pharmacists into the general practice
team could improve medicines management for patients, particularly those with …