Evaluation of a safe medication strategy intervention for people with dementia with an unplanned admission: Results from the Safe Medication Strategy Dementia Study.
dementia
hospitals
medication reconciliation
patient safety
Journal
Australasian journal on ageing
ISSN: 1741-6612
Titre abrégé: Australas J Ageing
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 9808874
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
Historique:
revised:
24
08
2020
received:
12
03
2020
accepted:
01
10
2020
pubmed:
10
11
2020
medline:
25
12
2021
entrez:
9
11
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To evaluate whether a safe medication strategy compared with usual care, provided to people with dementia during an unplanned admission, reduces readmissions to hospital and re-presentation to emergency departments within three months. A prospective, controlled pre-/post-trial conducted at two regional hospitals in New South Wales, Australia. No treatment effect was seen for time to first re-presentation or readmission within three months (P = .3). Compliance with six strategies applicable for all participants in the intervention phase was 58%. There was no treatment effect for secondary outcomes including dose administration aid use, home medicines review (HMR) requests by general practitioners and completed HMRs; however, they were significantly higher at the intervention site in both phases. A bundle of care to improve medication safety in people with dementia did not reduce re-presentations or readmissions within three months.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
356-365Subventions
Organisme : Dementia and Aged Care Services Fund: Research and Innovation Grants Scheme,
ID : 1601301.
Informations de copyright
© 2020 AJA Inc.
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