Medication Management

A new clinical decision support (CDS) intervention tool developed by the Houston Methodist Hospital system was found to be effective in reducing potentially inappropriate medication use in older patients.

Q: On Oct. 1, the MDS starts collecting information regarding provision of the current reconciled medication list to subsequent providers or the resident. How should we prepare?

Cardiometabolic and anticholinergic medications fell slightly when people were diagnosed with dementia, while drugs affecting the central nervous system (CNS) increased, according to a new study.

Doctors continue to give people medications that could raise their risk for falling if they’re already in the hospital for a fracture and have Parkinson’s disease, according to a new report.

Older adults receiving outpatient services have an increased risk of using potentially inappropriate medications, according to an international study released Wednesday. Using these medications also has...

In recent years, there has been much talk about drug reduction in nursing homes. We hear about “GDR meetings” and even a new verb, as in “We are ‘GDRing’ our residents’ medications.” ...

Tapering opioids when patients are receiving long-term drug therapy may trigger a series of unintended consequences, a new study finds. 

Patients who start a deprescribing intervention before their post-acute care admission have fewer medications at discharge and at a 90-day follow-up than their peers with usual care, researchers report.

Seniors are willing to take their doctor’s advice to discontinue an unneeded medication after viewing an educational video, investigators say.

Clinicians appear to be relying on antiepileptics to address residents’ chronic pain and behavioral symptoms. Other drug prescriptions are meanwhile declining, MDS and Medicare data show.