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A Quality Improvement Project to Reduce Falls and Improve Medication Management
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Sperling, Sandy Neal, Katie A. Hales, Kelly Adams, Dale Frey, Dennee |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | SUMMARY This paper describes the implementation of a medication management model within a medical-center based home health agency. The model was integrated into the agency's quality improvement falls prevention program and was selected in part because it directly addressed two medication-related accreditation standards for home health care agencies. During a five-month period, a staff pharmacist conducted medication reviews for 228 HHA patients who met the program's inclusion criteria. Thirty-three percent of these patients required some type of follow-up to resolve potential medication-related problems. By far, falls were the most common reason for referral, with 71 patients, or 30% of all participating patients, referred to the pharmacist due to a recent fall. From a quality improvement standpoint, the program met and even exceeded expectations in that it enabled staff to identify a serious threat to patient safety-medication-related problems, especially falls-and gave them the tools to resolve these potential problems. |
| Starting Page | 13 |
| Ending Page | 28 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1300/J027v24n01_02 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/ild_request_form.php?article_id=citjournalarticle_19162_17 |
| PubMed reference number | 16236656 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1300/J027v24n01_02 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 24 |
| Journal | Home health care services quarterly |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
