%0 Journal Article
%T Influence of pharmacist intervention on drug safety of geriatric
inpatients: a prospective, controlled trial
%A Angela Nachtigall
%A Hans J. Heppner
%A Petra A. Th¨šrmann
%J Archive of "Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety".
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2042098619843365
%X Demographic shift leads to an increasing number of geriatric patients suffering from multimorbidity and resulting polypharmacy. Polypharmacy is shown to be associated with drug-related problems (DRPs) and increased morbidity. For Germany, a hospital-based intervention may be successful optimizing of polypharmacy. The aim of this study was to reduce DRPs in geriatric inpatients by a structured pharmacistĄ¯s intervention and to measure the acceptance rate of pharmaceutical recommendations
%K drug safety
%K geriatric inpatients
%K medication appropriateness index
%K pharmaceutical intervention
%K polypharmacy
%K potentially inappropriate medication
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6469284/