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A modified Delphi study to determine the level of consensus across the European Union on the structures, processes and desired outcomes of the management of polypharmacy in older people (2017)
Journal Article
Stewart, D., Gibson-Smith, K., MacLure, K., Mair, A., Alonso, A., Codina, C., Cittadini, A., Fernandez-Llimos, F., Fleming, G., Gennimata, D., Gillespie, U., Harrison, C., Junius-Walker, U., Kardas, P., Kempen, T., Kinnear, M., Lewek, P., Malva, J., McIntosh, J., Scullin, C., & Wiese, B. (2017). A modified Delphi study to determine the level of consensus across the European Union on the structures, processes and desired outcomes of the management of polypharmacy in older people. PLOS ONE, 12(11), Article e0188348. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188348

Background Inappropriate use of multiple medicines (inappropriate polypharmacy) is a major challenge in older people with consequences of increased prevalence and severity of adverse drug reactions and interactions, and reduced medicines adherence.... Read More about A modified Delphi study to determine the level of consensus across the European Union on the structures, processes and desired outcomes of the management of polypharmacy in older people.

Medication review and polypharmacy management in the hospital setting. The cases of Greece and Catalonia (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gennimata, D., Kampolis, C. F., Vontetsianos, T., Mcintosh, J., Codina, C., Alonso, A., & Mair, A. Medication review and polypharmacy management in the hospital setting. The cases of Greece and Catalonia. Presented at 17th International Conference on Integrated Care, Dublin, Ireland

Introduction: Medication review and polypharmacy management, especially in the elderly, are key components of integrated care. Although polypharmacy management is often associated with the primary care setting, hospital clinicians, who are often memb... Read More about Medication review and polypharmacy management in the hospital setting. The cases of Greece and Catalonia.

Sustainable Implementation of Polypharmacy reviews as part of integrated care at Scale (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mair, A. R., Kinnear, M., Hurding, S., Micheal, N., & Wilson, M. Sustainable Implementation of Polypharmacy reviews as part of integrated care at Scale

Medication is the most common form of intervention to prevent disease or slow disease progression, with guidelines for single diseases recommending evidence based drug treatments. There remains the mismatch between prescribing guidelines for speci... Read More about Sustainable Implementation of Polypharmacy reviews as part of integrated care at Scale.