Understanding Principles of High Reliability Organizations Through the Eyes of VIONE: A Clinical Program to Improve Patient Safety by Deprescribing Potentially Inappropriate Medications and Reducing Polypharmacy.

Autor: Battar S; is Associate Chief of Staff, Geriatrics and Extended Care Services at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock at the time this article was submitted and is transitioning to Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. is an Academic Detail Pharmacist; is Chief of Pharmacy; all at Central Arkansas VA Healthcare System in Little Rock. is a Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 15 Pharmacy Analytics Program Manager., Watson Dickerson KR; is Associate Chief of Staff, Geriatrics and Extended Care Services at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock at the time this article was submitted and is transitioning to Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. is an Academic Detail Pharmacist; is Chief of Pharmacy; all at Central Arkansas VA Healthcare System in Little Rock. is a Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 15 Pharmacy Analytics Program Manager., Sedgwick C; is Associate Chief of Staff, Geriatrics and Extended Care Services at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock at the time this article was submitted and is transitioning to Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. is an Academic Detail Pharmacist; is Chief of Pharmacy; all at Central Arkansas VA Healthcare System in Little Rock. is a Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 15 Pharmacy Analytics Program Manager., Cmelik T; is Associate Chief of Staff, Geriatrics and Extended Care Services at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock at the time this article was submitted and is transitioning to Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. is an Academic Detail Pharmacist; is Chief of Pharmacy; all at Central Arkansas VA Healthcare System in Little Rock. is a Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 15 Pharmacy Analytics Program Manager.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS [Fed Pract] 2019 Dec; Vol. 36 (12), pp. 564-568.
Abstrakt: The assessment of polypharmacy and reduction of potentially inappropriate medications using VIONE has benefited about 60,000 veterans with more than 128,000 medications deprescribed, yielding more than $4 million in annualized cost avoidance.
Competing Interests: Author disclosures The authors report no actual or potential conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Databáze: MEDLINE