Polypharmacy management among Australian veterans: improving prescribing through the Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs' prescriber feedback programme
| Autor: | G T Killer, A Guttmann, Michael M Woodward, C L Streeton, R W Peck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Polypharmacy
Male medicine.medical_specialty Quality Assurance Health Care business.industry Alternative medicine Australia Drug Prescriptions Confidence interval Feedback Drug Utilization Review Older patients Claims data Family medicine Health care Internal Medicine medicine Humans Female business Quality use of medicines Veterans Affairs Aged Veterans |
| Zdroj: | Internal medicine journal. 38(2) |
| ISSN: | 1445-5994 |
| Popis: | Background: Older patients are potentially at risk from the effects of polypharmacy (PP) and/or drug–drug interactions. Aims: To examine the effects of a targeted patient-specific prescriber feedback programme on patients prescribed more than 19 individual medications over the 3-month study period. Methods: The Commonwealth Department of Veterans’ Affairs commissioned a review of Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme claims data to identify patients potentially at risk of drug injury through either PP (≥20 unique medications during 3 months) or clinically significant drug interactions (DI). Dispensing information for the patient at risk, relevant clinical guidelines and a personalized covering letter were mailed to the main prescribing general practitioner of the identified veteran patient. The claims data were then re-analysed after the programme. Results: There was a significant reduction in the mean number of unique medications prescribed over a 3-month period 1 year after the prescriber feedback (mean change = −2.22; 95% confidence interval −3.54 to −0.90; P = 0.0013) for patients identified with ongoing PP. There was also a significant reduction in the number of DI pairs (mean change = −0.73; 95% confidence interval −0.77 to −0.69; P |
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