SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018
Inappropriate Use of Medication by Elderly, Polymedicated, or Multipathological Patients with Chronic Diseases.
Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05348538 (Feasibility Study of the Medication Review With Follow up Service for Patients With Polypharmacy in Swiss Community Pharmacies), which is not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Feasibility Study of the Medication Review With Follow up Service for Patients With Polypharmacy in Swiss Community Pharmacies
Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Does Deprescribing Improve Quality of Life? A Systematic Review of the Literature.Drugs & aging · 2019Pooled it
- Mobile Apps for Increasing Treatment Adherence: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Pooled it
- Deprescribing interventions and their impact on medication adherence in community-dwelling older adults with polypharmacy: a systematic review.BMC geriatrics · 2019Pooled it
- Efficacy and Safety of Tildrakizumab in Older Patients: Pooled Analyses of Two Randomized Phase III Clinical Trials (reSURFACE 1 and reSURFACE 2) Through 244 Weeks.Acta dermato-venereologica · 2023Trial
- Medication information sources and associated factors among older adults in Nanjing, China: a CMIS-based cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Clinical characteristics and outcomes of intracranial hemorrhage in geriatric patients receiving non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants: a multicenter observational study.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Article
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of web-based medication management application for polypharmacy adolescents: a mixed methods study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Performance and Perceptions of Health Care Professionals Using an Immersive Virtual Reality Tool for Home Care Training: Observational Feasibility and Acceptability Study.JMIR serious games · 2025Article
- The Medication Safety Adventure Trail: An Educational Intervention to Promote Public Awareness on Medication Safety.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring the reasons for self-administration medication errors among illiterate and low-literate community-dwelling older adults with polypharmacy: a qualitative study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Trends in drug overdose deaths among adults 65 years of age and older in Canada (2000-2022).Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2024Article
- Article
- Self-care behaviors, medication adherence status, and associated factors among elderly individuals with type 2 diabetes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Article
- Polypharmacy in Older Patients: A Three-Year Longitudinal Analysis in Primary Care Settings of Aragón, Spain.Annals of geriatric medicine and research · 2024Article
- Development and Preliminary Psychometric Testing of a Brief Tool to Measure Medication Adherence in Older Populations.Clinical interventions in aging · 2024Article
- Article
- Multimorbidity, Polypharmacy, Severe Hypoglycemia, and Glycemic Control in Patients Using Glucose-Lowering Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Health Insurance Claims in Japan.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2023Article
- It's time to take a sustainable approach to health care in the face of the challenges of the 21st century.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Review
- Hospital pharmacist interventions for the management of oral mucositis in patients with head and neck cancer receiving chemoradiotherapy: a multicenter, prospective cohort study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The growth of the aging population leads to the increase of chronic diseases, of the burden of multimorbility, and of the complexity polypharmacy. The prevalence of medication errors rises in patients with polypharmacy in primary care, and this is a major concern to healthcare systems. This study reviews the published literature on the inappropriate use of medicines in order to articulate recommendations on how to reduce it in chronic patients, particularly in those who are elderly, polymedicated, or multipathological. A systematic review of articles published from January 2000 to October 2015 was performed using MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsychInfo, Scopus, The Cochrane Library, and Index Medicus databases. We selected 80 studies in order to analyse the content that addressed the question under consideration. Our literature review found that half of patients know what their prescribed treatment is; that most of elderly people take five or more medications a day; that in elderly, polymedicated people, the probability of a medication error occurring is higher; that new tools have been recently developed to reduce errors; that elderly patients can understand written information but the presentation and format is an important factor; and that a high percentage of patients have remaining doubts after their visit. Thus, strategies based on the evidence should be applied in order to reduce medication errors.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.