Trial reportAmerican journal of pharmaceutical education2009
Pharmacists' and pharmacy students' ability to identify drug-related problems using TIMER (Tool to Improve Medications in the Elderly via Review).
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- Tools for Assessment of the Appropriateness of Prescribing and Association with Patient-Related Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Drugs & aging · 2018Pooled it
- An Algorithm for Comprehensive Medication Management in Nursing Homes: Results of the AMBER Project.Drug safety · 2021Article
- Potentially Inappropriate Drug Prescribing in French Nursing Home Residents: An Observational Study.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Strategy to Improve Efficiency of Comprehensive Medication Reviews in a Community Pharmacy.The Journal of pharmacy technology : jPT : official publication of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians · 2019Article
- Medication appropriateness criteria for older adults: a narrative review of criteria and supporting studies.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2019Review
- Development and evaluation of an algorithm-based tool for Medication Management in nursing homes: the AMBER study protocol.BMJ open · 2018Article
- Polypharmacy-an Upward Trend with Unpredictable Effects.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2016Review
- Inappropriate prescribing: a systematic overview of published assessment tools.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2014Review
- Teaching heart failure treatment guidelines and assessing heart failure therapy.American journal of pharmaceutical education · 2010Article
- Evaluating categorisation and clinical relevance of drug-related problems in medication reviews.Pharmacy world & science : PWS · 2010Article
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Abstract
objectiveDetermine the effectiveness of TIMER (Tool to Improve Medications in the Elderly via Review) in helping pharmacists and pharmacy students identify drug-related problems during patient medication reviews.
methodsIn a randomized, controlled study design, geriatric patient cases were sent to 136 pharmacists and 108 third-year pharmacy students who were asked to identify drug related-problems (DRPs) with and without using TIMER.
resultsPharmacists identified more tool-related DRPs using TIMER (p = 0.027). Pharmacy students identified more tool-related DRPs using TIMER in the first case (p = 0.02), but not in the second.
conclusionTIMER increased the number of DRPs identified by practicing pharmacists and pharmacy students during medication reviews of hypothetical patient cases.
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