{"id":577,"date":"2020-12-11T13:34:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/?p=577"},"modified":"2020-12-22T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T20:40:08","slug":"effect-of-a-pharmacist-led-educational-intervention-on-inappropriate-medication-prescriptions-in-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/2020\/12\/11\/effect-of-a-pharmacist-led-educational-intervention-on-inappropriate-medication-prescriptions-in-older-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Effect of a Pharmacist-Led Educational Intervention on Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions in Older  Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-577\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-577-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-577-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-577-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><table width=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"118\">A cluster randomized trial<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Setting: Community<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">- To compare the effectiveness of a consumer targeted, pharmacist-led educational intervention (to send patients an educational deprescribing brochure in parallel to sending their physicians an evidence-based pharmaceutical opinion) vs usual care on discontinuation of inappropriate medication among community-dwelling older adults.<\/p>\n<p>- 69 community pharmacies were recruited<\/p>\n<p>- Patients included were adults aged &gt;\/= 65yo who were prescribed 1 of 4 Beers criteria medications<\/td>\n<td width=\"199\">- Pharmacist led intervention led to greater discontinuation of inappropriate prescriptions after 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>- 106 of 248 patients (43%) in the intervention group no longer filled prescriptions for inappropriate medication compared with 29 of 241 (12%) in the control group.<\/td>\n<td width=\"291\">A pharmacist-led educational intervention compared with usual care resulted in greater discontinuation of prescriptions<\/p>\n<p>for inappropriate medication after 6 months<\/td>\n<td width=\"109\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2714531\">Martin P et al. (2018)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"5\">Martin P, Tamblyn R, Benedetti A, Ahmed S, Tannenbaum C. Effect of a Pharmacist-Led Educational Intervention on Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions in Older<br \/>\nAdults. Jama. 2018;320(18):1889. doi:10.1001\/jama.2018.16131<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cluster randomized trial &nbsp; Setting: Community &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8211; To compare the effectiveness of a consumer targeted, pharmacist-led educational intervention (to send patients an educational deprescribing brochure in parallel to sending their physicians an evidence-based pharmaceutical opinion) vs usual care on discontinuation of inappropriate medication among community-dwelling older adults. &#8211; 69 community pharmacies were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[23,10,11,22],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 19:33:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}