General practitioners' and nurses' views on medication reviews and potentially inappropriate medicines in elderly patients - a qualitative study of reports by educating pharmacists.

CONCLUSION: GPs and nurses should participate in the construction and release of guidelines in order to increase their usability in clinical practice. Future research should analyse if alternative strategies such as condensed medical reviews and feedback on prescribing are easier to implement in primary care. Key points Complex medication reviews have been introduced on a large scale in Swedish primary care, but knowledge on GPs' and nurses' views on such reviews is lacking. In the context of primary care alternative strategies such as condensed medication reviews and feedback on prescribing may be more applicable than medication reviews according to guidelines. GPs and nurses should make contributions to the development of guidelines on medication reviews in order to increase their usability in clinical practice. PMID: 29956572 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Primary Care - Category: Primary Care Authors: Tags: Scand J Prim Health Care Source Type: research