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Pharmacist-led intervention to improve medication use in older inpatients using the Drug Burden Index: a study protocol for a before/after intervention with a retrospective control group and multiple case analysis.
Article in BMJ open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03698487 (Pharmacist Led Intervention to Improve Medication Use in Older In-patients Living With Frailty), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers.
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Pharmacist Led Intervention to Improve Medication Use in Older In-patients Living With Frailty: the Drug Burden Index
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of a pharmacist-led deprescribing intervention in older inpatients: an implementation study with retrospective control group.European geriatric medicine · 2026Trial
- Association between anticholinergic and sedative medications and physical functioning: data from the Canadian longitudinal study on aging (CLSA).European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2026Article
- Hospital readmissions related to adverse drug withdrawal events in older adults: a pilot study.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2026Article
- Health Equity Intervention for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes and High Social Risk.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Supporting deprescribing in hospitalised patients: formative usability testing of a computerised decision support tool.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Article
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13 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
introductionPolypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication use is common in older adults and is associated with adverse outcomes such as falls and hospitalisations. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This study is a pharmacist-led medication optimisation initiative using an electronic tool (the Drug Burden Index (DBI) Calculator) in four hospital sites in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The study aims to enrol 160 participants between the preintervention and intervention groups. The Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT 2013 checklist) was used to develop the protocol for this prospective interventional implementation study. A preintervention retrospective control cohort and a multiple case study analysis will also be used to assess the effect of intervention implementation. Statistical analysis will involve change in DBI scores and assessment of clinical outcomes, such as rehospitalisation and mortality using appropriate statistical tests including t-test, χ ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethics approval has been granted by the Nova Scotia Health Authority Research Ethics Board. The findings of this study will be published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at local, national and international conferences. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT03698487.
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