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Does Medication Review improve health? Therapeutics Initiative (University of British Columbia)

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Therapeutics Letter 104 reviews the evidence on medicine reviews as a means of improving health. Conclusions: Medication Review is an unproven intervention that has the potential to improve health outcomes and therefore needs to be evaluated in randomized controlled trials. Clinicians need time, tools, and training to conduct quality Medication Reviews. Medication Review in British Columbia could be enhanced if physicians increased utilization of Pharmanet, expanded indication-based prescribing, and made more use of billing codes for Medication Review.

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Title
Does Medication Review improve health?
Alternate Title
Therapeutics Letter 104
Creator
Therapeutics Initiative (University of British Columbia)
Date Issued
2017-02
Description
Therapeutics Letter 104 reviews the evidence on medicine reviews as a means of improving health. Conclusions: Medication Review is an unproven intervention that has the potential to improve health outcomes and therefore needs to be evaluated in randomized controlled trials. Clinicians need time, tools, and training to conduct quality Medication Reviews. Medication Review in British Columbia could be enhanced if physicians increased utilization of Pharmanet, expanded indication-based prescribing, and made more use of billing codes for Medication Review.
Subject
Medication Review; Nurse Practitioners; Pharmacists; Physicians; Quality Improvement
Geographic Location
British Columbia
Genre
Other
Type
Text
Language
eng
Notes
The UBC TI is funded by the BC Ministry of Health to provide evidence-based information about drug therapy. We neither formulate nor adjudicate provincial drug policies.
Date Available
2023-06-20
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0433683
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85093
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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