Medication review in hospitalised older people: what have we learnt?

Person-centred care is considered essential to clinical practice by regulatory and professional bodies around the world. For example, in the UK, the General Medical Council, General Pharmaceutical Council, Care Quality Commission and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence strongly advocate for it. The paper by Thevelin and colleagues1, in this edition of BMJ Quality & Safety, offers us the opportunity to reflect on medication review from the perspectives of both patients and healthcare professionals. In addition, it challenges us to consider how we can do better for our patients using a patient-centred approach through making shared decisions about changes to their medicines. The OPERAM trial2 evaluated the impact of a complex intervention of medication review with shared decision making on drug-related readmissions for older people with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy (>5 medicines) who were inpatients in four European countries (Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland and The Netherlands)....
Source: BMJ Quality and Safety - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Editorials Source Type: research