Interventions to reduce the prescription of inappropriate medicines in older patients

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Autor(a) principal: Santos,Nathalia Serafim dos
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Marengo,Lívia Luize, Moraes,Fabio da Silva, Barberato Filho,Silvio
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista de Saúde Pública
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Resumo: ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Identify and critically evaluate systematic reviews addressing the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the number of prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medication to older patients. METHODS: This is an overview of systematic reviews. The studies were searched and selected from Medline, Cochrane Library, Embase, CINAHL, Virtual Health Library, and Web of Science databases, combining the terms aged, prescriptions, inappropriate prescribing and potentially inappropriate medication list with their entry terms and other related descriptors, published by June 2017. This study included systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis that addressed the effectiveness of any intervention or combined interventions to reduce the number of prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medications to older patients, without restriction in terms of design, language or date of publication of primary studies. AMSTAR – A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews – was used to evaluate the methodological quality of selected systematic reviews. Study selection and the methodological quality evaluation were performed by two independent evaluators, who resolved any divergence by consensus. The main findings were grouped into thematic categories, defined after a content analysis and discussed qualitatively as narrative synthesis. RESULTS: This study analyzed 24 systematic reviews. In terms of study design and methodological quality evaluation, most were systematic reviews of randomized controlled clinical trials and studies of moderate quality, respectively. The interventions were analyzed in five thematic categories: medication review services, pharmaceutical interventions, computerized systems, educational interventions, and others. The interventions analyzed showed good results and most of them helped reduce the number of prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medication to older patients. CONCLUSIONS: The systematic reviews included in this overview showed potential benefits of different interventions. However, it was not possible to determine the most effective intervention. Combined interventions are likely to provide better results than isolated interventions.
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spelling Interventions to reduce the prescription of inappropriate medicines in older patientsAged. Health of the ElderlyPatient Medication KnowledgeInappropriate Prescribingprevention & controlReviewABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Identify and critically evaluate systematic reviews addressing the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the number of prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medication to older patients. METHODS: This is an overview of systematic reviews. The studies were searched and selected from Medline, Cochrane Library, Embase, CINAHL, Virtual Health Library, and Web of Science databases, combining the terms aged, prescriptions, inappropriate prescribing and potentially inappropriate medication list with their entry terms and other related descriptors, published by June 2017. This study included systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis that addressed the effectiveness of any intervention or combined interventions to reduce the number of prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medications to older patients, without restriction in terms of design, language or date of publication of primary studies. AMSTAR – A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews – was used to evaluate the methodological quality of selected systematic reviews. Study selection and the methodological quality evaluation were performed by two independent evaluators, who resolved any divergence by consensus. The main findings were grouped into thematic categories, defined after a content analysis and discussed qualitatively as narrative synthesis. RESULTS: This study analyzed 24 systematic reviews. In terms of study design and methodological quality evaluation, most were systematic reviews of randomized controlled clinical trials and studies of moderate quality, respectively. The interventions were analyzed in five thematic categories: medication review services, pharmaceutical interventions, computerized systems, educational interventions, and others. The interventions analyzed showed good results and most of them helped reduce the number of prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medication to older patients. CONCLUSIONS: The systematic reviews included in this overview showed potential benefits of different interventions. However, it was not possible to determine the most effective intervention. Combined interventions are likely to provide better results than isolated interventions.Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo2019-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102019000100500Revista de Saúde Pública v.53 2019reponame:Revista de Saúde Públicainstname:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)instacron:USP10.11606/s1518-8787.2019053000781info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSantos,Nathalia Serafim dosMarengo,Lívia LuizeMoraes,Fabio da SilvaBarberato Filho,Silvioeng2019-01-23T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S0034-89102019000100500Revistahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0034-8910&lng=pt&nrm=isoONGhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phprevsp@org.usp.br||revsp1@usp.br1518-87870034-8910opendoar:2019-01-23T00:00Revista de Saúde Pública - Universidade de São Paulo (USP)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Interventions to reduce the prescription of inappropriate medicines in older patients
title Interventions to reduce the prescription of inappropriate medicines in older patients
spellingShingle Interventions to reduce the prescription of inappropriate medicines in older patients
Santos,Nathalia Serafim dos
Aged. Health of the Elderly
Patient Medication Knowledge
Inappropriate Prescribing
prevention & control
Review
title_short Interventions to reduce the prescription of inappropriate medicines in older patients
title_full Interventions to reduce the prescription of inappropriate medicines in older patients
title_fullStr Interventions to reduce the prescription of inappropriate medicines in older patients
title_full_unstemmed Interventions to reduce the prescription of inappropriate medicines in older patients
title_sort Interventions to reduce the prescription of inappropriate medicines in older patients
author Santos,Nathalia Serafim dos
author_facet Santos,Nathalia Serafim dos
Marengo,Lívia Luize
Moraes,Fabio da Silva
Barberato Filho,Silvio
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author2 Marengo,Lívia Luize
Moraes,Fabio da Silva
Barberato Filho,Silvio
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author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Santos,Nathalia Serafim dos
Marengo,Lívia Luize
Moraes,Fabio da Silva
Barberato Filho,Silvio
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Aged. Health of the Elderly
Patient Medication Knowledge
Inappropriate Prescribing
prevention & control
Review
topic Aged. Health of the Elderly
Patient Medication Knowledge
Inappropriate Prescribing
prevention & control
Review
description ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Identify and critically evaluate systematic reviews addressing the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the number of prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medication to older patients. METHODS: This is an overview of systematic reviews. The studies were searched and selected from Medline, Cochrane Library, Embase, CINAHL, Virtual Health Library, and Web of Science databases, combining the terms aged, prescriptions, inappropriate prescribing and potentially inappropriate medication list with their entry terms and other related descriptors, published by June 2017. This study included systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis that addressed the effectiveness of any intervention or combined interventions to reduce the number of prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medications to older patients, without restriction in terms of design, language or date of publication of primary studies. AMSTAR – A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews – was used to evaluate the methodological quality of selected systematic reviews. Study selection and the methodological quality evaluation were performed by two independent evaluators, who resolved any divergence by consensus. The main findings were grouped into thematic categories, defined after a content analysis and discussed qualitatively as narrative synthesis. RESULTS: This study analyzed 24 systematic reviews. In terms of study design and methodological quality evaluation, most were systematic reviews of randomized controlled clinical trials and studies of moderate quality, respectively. The interventions were analyzed in five thematic categories: medication review services, pharmaceutical interventions, computerized systems, educational interventions, and others. The interventions analyzed showed good results and most of them helped reduce the number of prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medication to older patients. CONCLUSIONS: The systematic reviews included in this overview showed potential benefits of different interventions. However, it was not possible to determine the most effective intervention. Combined interventions are likely to provide better results than isolated interventions.
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