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 …

Impact of deprescribing interventions in older hospitalised patients on prescribing and clinical outcomes: a systematic review of randomised trials

J Thillainadesan, D Gnjidic, S Green, SN Hilmer - Drugs & aging, 2018 - Springer
Background Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) are prevalent
in older adults in hospital, and are associated with negative outcomes including adverse …

Optimizing therapy to prevent avoidable hospital admissions in multimorbid older adults (OPERAM): cluster randomised controlled trial

MR Blum, BTGM Sallevelt, A Spinewine, D O'Mahony… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To examine the effect of optimising drug treatment on drug related hospital
admissions in older adults with multimorbidity and polypharmacy admitted to hospital …

Psychometric evaluation of the F-SUS: creation and validation of the French version of the system usability scale

G Gronier, A Baudet - International Journal of Human–Computer …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT While the System Usability Scale (SUS) is probably one of the most widely used
questionnaires to measure the perceived ease of use of interactive systems, there is …

[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 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Tackling problematic polypharmacy requires tailoring the use of medicines
to individual needs and circumstances. This may involve stopping medicines (deprescribing) …

Using EMR-enabled computerized decision support systems to reduce prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications: a narrative review

IA Scott, PI Pillans, M Barras… - Therapeutic advances in …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) that pose more risk than benefit
in older patients is a common occurrence across all healthcare settings. Reducing such …

Applied data science in patient-centric healthcare: Adaptive analytic systems for empowering physicians and patients

M Spruit, M Lytras - Telematics and Informatics, 2018 - Elsevier
We define the emerging research field of applied data science as the knowledge discovery
process in which analytic systems are designed and evaluated to improve the daily practices …

Medication review and reconciliation in older adults

JB Beuscart, S Pelayo, L Robert, S Thevelin… - European geriatric …, 2021 - Springer
Older people are frequently exposed to polypharmacy, inappropriate prescribing, and
adverse drug events. Two clinical processes can help geriatricians to optimize and increase …

Rationale and design of OPtimising thERapy to prevent Avoidable hospital admissions in Multimorbid older people (OPERAM): a cluster randomised controlled trial

L Adam, E Moutzouri, C Baumgartner, AL Loewe… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Multimorbidity and polypharmacy are important risk factors for drug-related
hospital admissions (DRAs). DRAs are often linked to prescribing problems (overprescribing …

Decision-support systems for managing polypharmacy in the elderly: A scoping review

A Mouazer, R Tsopra, K Sedki, C Letord… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polypharmacy, the consuming of more than five drugs, is a public health problem. It can lead
to many interactions and adverse drug reactions and is very expensive. Therapeutic …