OLDER ADULT MISUSE OF OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATIONS: BENEFITS OF A NOVEL PHARMACY-BASED INTERVENTION
Jason Chladek, Aaron Gilson, Jamie Stone, Elin Lehnbom, Emily Hoffins, Maria Berbakov, Jukrin Moon, Michelle Chui · 2023
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Jason Chladek and co-authors test a pharmacy redesign that cuts misuse of over the counter drugs by older adults in 2023. Misuse takes four forms: risk by age, clashes with other drugs, clashes with illness, and ignoring label rules. Their design adds stop signs to high risk items in the aisle. The riskiest items move behind the counter.
Twenty pharmacies were matched and split into test and control groups. Near three hundred older adults took part. Age based and drug clash misuse fell a lot at test sites. The other two misuse types were too rare there to test. Adults over age eighty five had the highest misuse risk. The authors see strong value in the redesign.
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| CREATOR | Jason Chladek, Aaron Gilson, Jamie Stone, Elin Lehnbom, Emily Hoffins, Maria Berbakov, Jukrin Moon, Michelle Chui |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |