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Explicit, evidence-based criteria to assess the quality of prescribing to elderly nursing home residents
Author(s)C Alice Oborne, Richard Hooper, Cameron G Swift,
Journal titleAge and Ageing, vol 32, no 1, January 2003
Pagespp 102-108
KeywordsDrugs ; Indicators ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; South East England.
AnnotationNursing home residents frequently receive multiple medications for multiple indications. Objective, evidence-based and simple-to-use prescribing appropriateness criteria have been developed to evaluate the quality of prescribing. When assessing benzodiazepine prescribing, steroids in airways disease, antithrombotics in atrial fibrillation and aspirin in cardiac ischaemia, prescribing data should be evaluated in the light of clinical data. Prescribing in a random sample of 22 homes in the former South Thames Region was frequently found to be suboptimal, including poor documentation, and under- and over-prescribing. An audit led to quality of prescribing indicators being successfully modified. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-030218208 A
ClassmarkLLD: 3RI: KX: LHB: 82Z

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