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Helping Older Adults Improve Their Medication Experience (HOME) by Addressing Medication Regimen Complexity in Home Healthcare.
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Demonstration of ALIGN: Aligning Medications With What Matters Most
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Feasibility of an electronic health record web-based application to optimize medication-related communication between skilled home healthcare clinicians and primary care providers.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- [Vulnerability, chronicity and aging: older adults' medication experience should be integrated in Pharmaceutical Care].Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra · 2024Article
- An intelligent algorithm to evaluate and improve the performance of a home healthcare center considering trust indicators.Computers in biology and medicine · 2022Article
- Comparing and validating medication complexity from insurance claims against electronic health records.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2022Article
- Skilled home healthcare clinicians' experiences in communicating with physicians: A national survey.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
- Personal Electronic Records of Medications (PERMs) for medication reconciliation at care transitions: a rapid realist review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Review
- Assessing the Population-Level Correlation of Medication Regimen Complexity and Adherence Indices Using Electronic Health Records and Insurance Claims.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2020Article
- A Qualitative View of Homecare Support Workers on Unmet Health Needs of People with Dependency.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Detecting Disparities in Medication Management Among Limited English Proficient and English Proficient Home Health Patients.Home health care management & practice · 2020Article
- Users' Perceptions of an in-Home Electronic Medication Dispensing System: A Qualitative Study.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Article
- Controlling the Uncontrollable: Patient Safety and Medication Management From the Perspective of Registered Nurses in Municipal Home Health Care.Global qualitative nursing researchArticle
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Abstract
In skilled home healthcare (SHHC), communication between nurses and physicians is often inadequate for medication reconciliation and needed changes to the medication regimens are rarely made. Fragmentation of electronic health record (EHR) systems, transitions of care, lack of physician-nurse in-person contact, and poor understanding of medications by patients and their families put patients at risk for serious adverse outcomes. The aim of this study was to develop and test the HOME tool, an informatics tool to improve communication about medication regimens, share the insights of home care nurses with physicians, and highlight to physicians and nurses the complexity of medication schedules. We used human computer interaction design and evaluation principles, automated extraction from standardized forms, and modification of existing EHR fields to highlight key medication-related insights that had arisen during the SHHC visit. Separate versions of the tool were developed for physicians/nurses and patients/caregivers. A pilot of the tool was conducted using 20 SHHC encounters. Home care nurses and physicians found the tool useful for communication. Home care nurses were able to implement the HOME tool into their clinical workflow and reported improved communication with physicians about medications. This simple and largely automated tool improves understanding and communication around medications in SHHC.
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