Suboptimal medicines cause hospitalisations

September 7, 2015

More than a quarter of hospitalisations of older Australians maybe caused by poor medicationrelated processes of care before admission, at an annual cost of $300m, according to new research published in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA). Researchers at the University of South Australia and the BUPA Health Foundation used data from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs from Jul 2007 to Jun 2012 to examine prevalence of suboptimal medication-related processes of care before hospitalisation of 83,430 older patients. “The overall proportion of hospitalisations that were preceded by suboptimal medication-related processes of care was 25.2%,” the authors reported. Of patients hospitalised for fractures resulting from a fall, 85.4% were patients aged 65 years or older who had been prescribed a falls-risk medicine before admission. Other examples involved renal and cardiovascular disease errors.

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Pharmacy Daily | Suboptimal medicines cause hospitalisations

Suboptimal medicines cause hospitalisations

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