Validation of a patient-level medication regimen complexity index as a possible tool to identify patients for medication therapy management intervention

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 826-835

  Hirsch, Jan D ^a,b   Metz, Kelli R ^c   Hosokawa, Patrick W ^d   Libby, Anne M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic disease; complexity; diabetes; geriatrics; HIV; human immunodeficiency virus; hypertension; medication regimen complexity; medication therapy management; MRCI; MTM

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; MEDICATION REGIMEN COMPLEXITY INDEX; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; PHARMACIST; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PHARMACISTS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84905991305     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: 18759114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phar.1452     Document Type: Article

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