Improving Medication Management in Home Care

Issues and Solutions

Dennee Frey

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781135430856
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Help stop the widespread problem of medication errors among the elderly The problem of medication errors among the elderly is widespread. Improving Medication Management in Home Care: Issues and Solutions tackles this tough issue by closely examining the challenges faced in preventing medication errors in home and community care program settings and putting forth effective solutions to better manage medication use. Respected experts discuss the unique role of the pharmacist in improving patient safety, presenting a comprehensive collection of evidence-based studies featuring national and international viewpoints, cutting-edge interventions, and cost-effective procedures that address medication problems in older adults.Polypharmacy is the term used for patients receiving too many medications for a specific treatment. The implications for drug-drug interactions can be dangerous for the unaware patient. Improving Medication Management in Home Care: Issues and Solutions focuses on several different effective management programs and examines each in detail, completely explaining the positiveand negativeresults. This hands-on practical information is useful for all professionals and field providers working with older adults and their medication concerns. The book also provides valuable lessons through the experiences of national home health leaders in various settingshospital-based, rural, large or small, etc., as well as community-based programs for dually eligable older adults. The book is extensively referenced and includes an abundance of clear, helpful tables, figures, and Web resources.Improving Medication Management in Home Care: Issues and Solutions explores:

• developing computerized risk assessment screenings
  
• implementing pharmacist-centered interventions
  
• improving transitional care from hospital to home
  
• the Prescription Intervention and Lifelong Learning (PILL) program
  
• Medication Therapy Management Services
  
• a quality-improvement project to reduce falls and improve medication management
  
• outcome-based quality improvement for patient safety
  
• intern programs that can provide cost-effective consultant services

Improving Medication Management in Home Care: Issues and Solutions is essential reading for home health care administrators, clinicians, managers, pharmacists, physicians, educators, students, those professionals involved in the field of aging, and health practitioners world-wide.

Index

Accreditation Participation Requirements (APRs), 18

Activity(ies), CQI, 4

Adams, D., 13

ADEs. See Adverse drug events (ADEs)

Administration on Aging (AoA), EBPI of, xvii, 76

Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs), 111–112

Adverse drug events (ADEs), 48, 49

among older adults, 101–102

defined, 104

in HCP, 33–34, 42

post-hospital, 106

Albany College of Pharmacy, 49, 50, 51, 57

Albany Memorial Hospital, site descriptions, 49, 50

American Geriatrics Society, 103

American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP), 7, 73, 74, 80, 81

AoA. See Administration on Aging (AoA)

APNs. See Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs)

APRs. See Accreditation Participation Requirements (APRs)

Archives of Internal Medicine, 138

ASCP. See American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP)

ASCP Research and Education Foundation's Fleetwood Project, 78

Atkinson, W.L., 29

Australia, Department of Health and Aging in, 8, 142, 144

Azzopardi, L.M., 137

Barber, N., 109

Barnes, J., 138

Bates, D.W., 124

Beers criteria, 3

Beneficiary(ies), targeted, defined, 77–78

Boling, P.A., 32, 101, 113

Brumley, R.D., 123

California Medicaid Waiver, xvii

Cameron, K.A., 73

Cappuzzo, K.A., 101

Care Standards Act 2000, 144

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), 31, 33, 73

Certified Geriatric Pharmacists, 78

Chang, R., 16

CHAP. See Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP)

Clerkship, quality, characteristics of, in VIMM at Eddy VNA, 53–54

CMS. See Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Coleman, L., 63

Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy, 78

Community(ies), international, medication management in older adults in, 137–146

Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP), 56

Computerized Assessment Field Test, in HCP, 36

Computerized medication risk assessments, in HCP, 36, 37t

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities, 4

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) process, 6, 15

CQI activities. See A Continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities

Dansky, K.H., 87

Database(s), OASLS/Comprehensive A...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the Editor
• Contents
• Preface: Bringing New Evidence-Based Tools to Strengthen Practice
• Acknowledgment
• Introduction
• A Quality Improvement Project to Reduce Palls arid Improve Medication Management
• Integration of a Medication Management Model into Outcome-Based Quality Improvement: A Pilot Program in a Rural Proprietary Home Healthcare Agency
• Medication Management Model as Experiential Education Tool for Students of Pharmacy
• Reaching the Homebound Elderly: The Prescription Intervention and Lifelong Learning (PILL) Program
• Comment on Medication Management Models and Other Pharmacist Interventions: Implications for Policy and Practice
• Polypharmacy and Possible Drug-Drug Interactions Among Diabetic Patients Receiving Home Health Care Services
• Opportunities for Improving Post-Hospital Home Medication Management Among Older Adults
• Risk of Medication Errors at Hospital Discharge and Barriers to Problem Resolution
• Medications Management: in Older Persons: What Can Be Achieved in the International Community?
• Index