ArticleBritish journal of clinical pharmacology2018
Development of a standardized chart review method to identify drug-related hospital admissions in older people.
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- Central Nervous System-Active Medications and Risk of Hospital Readmission in Older Multimorbid Adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Trial
- Antipsychotic prescribing and drug-related readmissions in multimorbid older inpatients: a post-hoc analysis of the OPERAM population.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2024Trial
- Detectability of Medication Errors With a STOPP/START-Based Medication Review in Older People Prior to a Potentially Preventable Drug-Related Hospital Admission.Drug safety · 2022Trial
- Optimizing Therapy to Prevent Avoidable Hospital Admissions in Multimorbid Older Adults (OPERAM): cluster randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2021Trial
- Increasing the reporting of adverse drug reaction-related hospitalizations using an ICD-10-based identification workflow: A multicentre study from Switzerland.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2026Observational
- The prevalence of medication-related hospital readmissions after bariatric surgery: a retrospective observational study.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2026Observational
- Prognosis of drug-related hospital admissions in older adults in an acute-care geriatric unit: a prospective cohort study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Drug-related falls: proportion and impact of hospitalizations in geriatric departments on the prescription of fall-risk increasing drugs (FRIDs).European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2025Observational
- Drug-Event Pairs as Indicators for the Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions during Hospitalization in Routinely Collected Electronic Data Sources.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2025Article
- Comparing the performance of multiple trigger tools in identifying medication-related hospital readmissions.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Drug-related emergency department visits: external validation of an assessment tool in a general emergency department population.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2024Article
- Potentially clinically significant drug-drug interactions in older patients admitted to the hospital: A cross-sectional study.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Article
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- Drug-related hospital admissions in older adults: comparison of the Naranjo algorithm and an adjusted version of the Kramer algorithm.European geriatric medicine · 2022Article
- Predictors of 1-year drug-related admissions in older multimorbid hospitalized adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
- Drug-Related Hospital AdmissionsFrontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Prevalence and predictors of medication-related emergency department visit in older adults: A multicenter study linking national claim database and hospital medical records.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Defining Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions for Hypoglycaemic Agents to Improve Computerised Decision Support: A Study Protocol.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Prevalence of drug-drug interactions in older people before and after hospital admission: analysis from the OPERAM trial.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
aimsWe aimed to develop a standardized chart review method to identify drug-related hospital admissions (DRA) in older people caused by non-preventable adverse drug reactions and preventable medication errors including overuse, underuse and misuse of medications: the DRA adjudication guide.
methodsThe DRA adjudication guide was developed based on design and test iterations with international and multidisciplinary input in four subsequent steps: literature review; evaluation of content validity using a Delphi consensus technique; a pilot test; and a reliability study.
resultsThe DRA adjudication guide provides definitions, examples and step-by-step instructions to measure DRA. A three-step standardized chart review method was elaborated including: (i) data abstraction; (ii) explicit screening with a newly developed trigger tool for DRA in older people; and (iii) consensus adjudication for causality by a pharmacist and a physician using the World Health Organization-Uppsala Monitoring Centre and Hallas criteria. A 15-member international Delphi panel reached consensus agreement on 26 triggers for DRA in older people. The DRA adjudication guide showed good feasibility of use and achieved moderate inter-rater reliability for the evaluation of 16 cases by four European adjudication pairs (71% agreement, κ = 0.41). Disagreements arose mainly for cases with potential underuse.
conclusionsThe DRA adjudication guide is the first standardized chart review method to identify DRA in older persons. Content validity, feasibility of use and inter-rater reliability were found to be satisfactory. The method can be used as an outcome measure for interventions targeted at improving quality and safety of medication use in older people.
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