From the Pharmaceutical Journal, published April 22: A pioneering study has synthesized evidence of the effectiveness of pharmacist-led interventions to reduce adverse drug events in older people living in care homes.
The most frequent single-component pharmacist-led intervention was medication review and the most common components in multicomponent interventions were medication review and education of health care professionals. Overall, the researchers concluded that there was clear evidence on the impact of pharmacist-led interventions to reduce the incidence of cognitive impairment, falls, drug-drug interactions, drug burden index, anticholinergic drug score, Clostridium difficile infections and urinary tract infections.
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