Improving inappropriate medication and information transfer at hospital discharge: study protocol for a cluster RCT

Improving inappropriate medication and information transfer at hospital discharge: study protocol for a cluster RCT

Abstract Background Inappropriate medication and polypharmacy increase morbidity, hospitalisation rate, costs and mortality in multimorbid patients. At hospital discharge of elderly patients, polypharmacy is often even more pronounced than at admission. However, the optimal discharge strategy in vie...

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Main Authors: Thomas Grischott, Stefan Zechmann, Yael Rachamin, Stefan Markun, Corinne Chmiel, Oliver Senn, Thomas Rosemann, Nicolas Rodondi, Stefan Neuner-Jehle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:Implementation Science
Subjects:
Multimorbidity
Polypharmacy
Hospital discharge
Medication review
Deprescribing
Potentially inappropriate medication
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13012-018-0839-1

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