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ArticleFederal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS2019

Understanding Principles of High Reliability Organizations Through the Eyes of VIONE: A Clinical Program to Improve Patient Safety by Deprescribing Potentially Inappropriate Medications and Reducing Polypharmacy.

Saraswathy Battar, Kimberly R Watson Dickerson, Christopher Sedgwick, Tim Cmelik

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Article in Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Age-Friendly Health Systems and Meeting the Principles of High Reliability Organizations in the VHA.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2024
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  6. No Wrong Floor on the Elevator: A Vision for the VA as an Age-Friendly Health System.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2023
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  13. Assessment of a Medication Deprescribing Tool on Polypharmacy and Cost Avoidance.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Saraswathy Battaris Associate Chief of Staff, Geriatrics and Extended Care Services at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock at the time this article was submitted and is transitioning to Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. is an Academic Detail Pharmacist; is Chief of Pharmacy; all at Central Arkansas VA Healthcare System in Little Rock. is a Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 15 Pharmacy Analytics Program Manager.
Kimberly R Watson Dickersonis Associate Chief of Staff, Geriatrics and Extended Care Services at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock at the time this article was submitted and is transitioning to Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. is an Academic Detail Pharmacist; is Chief of Pharmacy; all at Central Arkansas VA Healthcare System in Little Rock. is a Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 15 Pharmacy Analytics Program Manager.
Christopher Sedgwickis Associate Chief of Staff, Geriatrics and Extended Care Services at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock at the time this article was submitted and is transitioning to Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. is an Academic Detail Pharmacist; is Chief of Pharmacy; all at Central Arkansas VA Healthcare System in Little Rock. is a Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 15 Pharmacy Analytics Program Manager.
Tim Cmelikis Associate Chief of Staff, Geriatrics and Extended Care Services at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock at the time this article was submitted and is transitioning to Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. is an Academic Detail Pharmacist; is Chief of Pharmacy; all at Central Arkansas VA Healthcare System in Little Rock. is a Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 15 Pharmacy Analytics Program Manager.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The assessment of polypharmacy and reduction of potentially inappropriate medications using VIONE has benefited about 60,000 veterans with more than 128,000 medications deprescribed, yielding more than $4 million in annualized cost avoidance.

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PMID31892781
PMCPMC6913614

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