Nursing home team-care deprescribing study: A stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial protocol

BMJ Open

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Kua, Chong Han ^a,b   Yeo, Cindy Ying Ying ^b   Char, Cheryl Wai Teng ^c   Tan, Cheryl Wei Yan ^c   Tan, Poh Ching ^c   Mak, Vivienne Sl ^d   Lee, Shaun Wen Huey ^a   Leong, Ian Yi Onn ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL HEALTHCARE GROUP   (Singapore)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deprescribing; Elderly; Falls; Multidisciplinary; Nursing home; Polypharmacy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRUG INTERACTION; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHARMACOECONOMICS; PILL; PRESCRIPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEAM CARE DEPRESCRIBING; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEPRESCRIPTION; FALLING; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLYPHARMACY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGAPORE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEPRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; POLYPHARMACY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGAPORE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85018899126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015293     Document Type: Article

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