Collaborative medication review for people with polymedication in primary care: scoping review
(2023) 28th WONCA Europe Conference — Location: (Belgium) Bruxelles (7.June.2023)
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- Background : In 2019, a report by the WHO (World Health Organization) stated that "polypharmacy is a major and growing public health problem, occurring in all health care sectors." Inappropriate polymedication leads to possible side effects, drug interactions, and hospitalizations. To ensure more appropriate prescribing, general practitioners (GPs) can conduct medication reviews. However, polymedicated patients are abundant and GPs are overworked. Collaboration with other primary care actors to perform medication review is encouraged. Pharmacists are complementary to GPs thanks to their expertise in pharmacology. To boost medication reviews for polymedicated patients, by pharmacists, in primary care in Belgium, the government is planning to finance them. [...]
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de Montigny, M. (2023). Collaborative medication review for people with polymedication in primary care: scoping review. 28th WONCA Europe Conference, (Belgium) Bruxelles. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236900