The MedSafer Study: A Controlled Trial of an Electronic Decision Support Tool for Deprescribing in Acute Care

• Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) Vol. 67; no. 9; pp. 1843 - 1850
• Main Authors: McDonald, Emily G., Wu, Peter E., Rashidi, Babak, Forster, Alan J., Huang, Allen, Pilote, Louise, Papillon‐Ferland, Louise, Bonnici, André, Tamblyn, Robyn, Whitty, Rachel, Porter, Sandra, Battu, Kiran, Downar, James, Lee, Todd C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.09.2019; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Clinical trials; Decision Support Systems, Clinical; deprescribing; Deprescriptions; electronic decision support; Female; frailty; Hospitalization; Humans; Inappropriate Prescribing - prevention & control; Internal Medicine - methods; Male; Medication Reconciliation - methods; older adults; Older people; Patient Discharge; Patients; Polypharmacy; Potentially Inappropriate Medication List; electronic decision support; older adults; frailty; deprescribing; polypharmacy

OBJECTIVES Polypharmacy is common, costly, and harmful for hospitalized older adults. Scalable strategies to reduce the burden of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) are needed. We sought to leverage medication reconciliation in hospitalized older adults by pairing with MedSafer, an electro...