Recommendations for Preventing Medication Diversion and Misuse in Hospice Care: A Modified Delphi Study

Context: Recommendations are needed to help minimize the risks of medication diversion and misuse in the hospice setting.Objective: To identify recommendations that could help prevent medication diversion and misuse in hospice care.Methods: A modified Delphi method was utilized. An interdisciplinary panel of ten experts engaged in three phases of online and in-person voting regarding recommendations. Consensus for recommendations required a minimum of 80% endorsement by the panel experts. After two rounds of voting and several rounds of informal voting, 15 total recommendations were endorsed.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research