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How do physicians conduct medication reviews?

Derjung M Tarn1, Debora A Paterniti, Richard L Kravitz

  • 1Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, 10880 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1800, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. dtarn@mednet.ucla.edu

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Physician medication reviews for older adults often lack comprehensive discussion of all chronic medications. Further research is needed to define effective medication review practices for improved patient care.

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Area of Science:

  • Geriatric Medicine
  • Primary Care
  • Health Services Research

Background:

  • Annual medication reviews are recommended for older patients.
  • The content and execution of medication reviews are not well-defined.
  • Physician practices during medication reviews are understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe physician actions during office-based medication reviews.
  • To analyze the content of physician-patient discussions regarding medications.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative content analysis of audio-recorded physician-patient encounters.
  • Study included 100 patients aged 65+ and 28 primary care physicians.
  • Data collected from two healthcare systems in Sacramento, California.

Main Results:

  • Physicians used various strategies: obtaining complete medication lists (36%), discussing management topics (47%), or sequential medication discussion (45%).
  • An average of 1.5 medication management topics were discussed per medication.
  • Comprehensive, sequential discussion of all medications occurred in only 32% of visits.

Conclusions:

  • In routine practice, comprehensive medication discussions are infrequent.
  • A clearer, practical definition of a physician-conducted medication review is necessary.
  • Improved conceptualization may enhance the effectiveness of medication reviews for older adults.