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- Title
Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Potentially Inappropriate Medication in Older Patients: A Systematic Review.
- Authors
Rodrigues, Daniela A.; Plácido, Ana I.; Mateos-Campos, Ramona; Figueiras, Adolfo; Herdeiro, Maria Teresa; Roque, Fátima
- Abstract
Background: Age-related multiple comorbidities cause older adults to be prone to the use of potentially inappropriate medicines (PIM) resulting in an increased risk of adverse events. Several strategies have emerged to support PIM prescription, and a huge number of interventions to reduce PIM have been proposed. This work aims to analyze the effectiveness of PIM interventions directed to older adults. Methods: A systematic review was performed searching the literature in the MEDLINE PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane scientific databases for interventional studies that assessed the PIM interventions in older adults (≥65 years). Results: Forty-seven articles were included, involving 52 to 124,802 patients. Various types of interventions were analyzed such as medication review, educational strategies, clinical decision support system, and organizational and multifaceted approaches. In the hospital, the most successful intervention was medication review (75.0%), while in primary care, the analysis of all included studies revealed that educational strategies were the most effective. However, the analysis of interventions that have greater evidence by its design was inconclusive. Conclusion: The results obtained in this work suggested that PIM-setting-directed interventions should be developed to promote the wellbeing of the patients through PIM reduction. Although the data obtained suggested that medication review was the most assertive strategy to decrease the number of PIM in the hospital setting, more studies are necessary. Systematic Review Registration: [https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display%5frecord.php?ID=CRD42021233484], identifier [PROSPERO 2021 CRD42021233484].
- Subjects
INAPPROPRIATE prescribing (Medicine); OLDER patients; MEDICATION reconciliation; OLDER people; DECISION support systems; SCIENCE databases
- Publication
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022, Vol 13, p1
- ISSN
1663-9812
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fphar.2021.777655