Scoring, Clinical Utility, and Psychometric Properties of the In-Home Medication Management Performance Evaluation (HOME-Rx).

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: All relationships were as predicted: The HOME-Rx is a valid and reliable performance-based assessment that provides clinicians and researchers with a measure of older adults' actual medication management ability in the home using their medications. The results can potentially be used to guide treatment planning and improve medication management.
WHAT THIS ARTICLE ADDS: Occupational therapy practitioners can use the HOME-Rx to adequately determine performance problems, safety concerns, and environmental barriers and potentially to guide treatment planning and improve medication management for older adults.
PMID: 30915967 [PubMed - in process]

Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - February 28, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Somerville E, Massey K, Keglovits M, Vouri S, Hu YL, Carr D, Stark S Tags: Am J Occup Ther Source Type: research