# Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/pharmaceutical-practices-and-patient-outcomes/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Description | This cluster of papers focuses on the challenges and consequences of polypharmacy, inappropriate medication use, and adverse drug events in the elderly population. It explores topics such as potentially inappropriate prescribing, pharmacist interventions, medication reconciliation, deprescribing, and the impact of anticholinergic burden. The research aims to address the complexities of medication management in older adults and improve patient outcomes. |
| Domain | Health Sciences |
| Field | Medicine |
| OpenAlex ID | t10496 |
| Works | 374 |

## Topic papers all

Showing 15 of 374.

- [Effectiveness of Antipsychotic Drugs in Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia](https://scholariq.org/papers/effectiveness-of-antipsychotic-drugs-in-patients-with-chronic-schizophrenia/)
- [Retracted: Predictive Validity of a Medication Adherence Measure in an Outpatient Setting](https://scholariq.org/papers/retracted-predictive-validity-of-a-medication-adherence-measure-in-an-outpatient/)
- [The Danish National Prescription Registry](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-danish-national-prescription-registry/)
- [ACC/AHA guidelines for the evaluation and management of chronic heart failure in the adult: executive summary](https://scholariq.org/papers/acc-aha-guidelines-for-the-evaluation-and-management-of-chronic-heart-failure-in/)
- [Understanding Patients’ Adherence-Related Beliefs about Medicines Prescribed for Long-Term Conditions: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Necessity-Concerns Framework](https://scholariq.org/papers/understanding-patients-adherence-related-beliefs-about-medicines-prescribed-for/)
- [Compliance With Medication Regimens for Mental and Physical Disorders](https://scholariq.org/papers/compliance-with-medication-regimens-for-mental-and-physical-disorders/)
- [STOPP/START criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people: version 3](https://scholariq.org/papers/stopp-start-criteria-for-potentially-inappropriate-prescribing-in-older-people/)
- [The Anticholinergic Drug Scale as a Measure of Drug‐Related Anticholinergic Burden: Associations With Serum Anticholinergic Activity](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-anticholinergic-drug-scale-as-a-measure-of-drug-related-anticholinergic/)
- [Haloperidol Prophylaxis for Elderly Hip‐Surgery Patients at Risk for Delirium: A Randomized Placebo‐Controlled Study](https://scholariq.org/papers/haloperidol-prophylaxis-for-elderly-hip-surgery-patients-at-risk-for-delirium-a/)
- [Anticholinergic Medication Use and Cognitive Impairment in the Older Population: The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study](https://scholariq.org/papers/anticholinergic-medication-use-and-cognitive-impairment-in-the-older-population/)
- [Antipsychotic Drug Use and Mortality in Older Adults with Dementia](https://scholariq.org/papers/antipsychotic-drug-use-and-mortality-in-older-adults-with-dementia/)
- [Anticholinergic Drug Exposure and the Risk of Dementia](https://scholariq.org/papers/anticholinergic-drug-exposure-and-the-risk-of-dementia/)
- [Effect of Aspirin on Disability-free Survival in the Healthy Elderly](https://scholariq.org/papers/effect-of-aspirin-on-disability-free-survival-in-the-healthy-elderly/)
- [Explicit criteria for determining inappropriate medication use in nursing home residents. UCLA Division of Geriatric Medicine.](https://scholariq.org/papers/explicit-criteria-for-determining-inappropriate-medication-use-in-nursing-home/)
- [Polypharmacy and Prescribing Quality in Older People](https://scholariq.org/papers/polypharmacy-and-prescribing-quality-in-older-people/)

## Topic primary papers

Showing 15 of 160.

- [STOPP/START criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people: version 3](https://scholariq.org/papers/stopp-start-criteria-for-potentially-inappropriate-prescribing-in-older-people/)
- [Anticholinergic Medication Use and Cognitive Impairment in the Older Population: The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study](https://scholariq.org/papers/anticholinergic-medication-use-and-cognitive-impairment-in-the-older-population/)
- [Anticholinergic Drug Exposure and the Risk of Dementia](https://scholariq.org/papers/anticholinergic-drug-exposure-and-the-risk-of-dementia/)
- [Explicit criteria for determining inappropriate medication use in nursing home residents. UCLA Division of Geriatric Medicine.](https://scholariq.org/papers/explicit-criteria-for-determining-inappropriate-medication-use-in-nursing-home/)
- [Polypharmacy and Prescribing Quality in Older People](https://scholariq.org/papers/polypharmacy-and-prescribing-quality-in-older-people/)
- [Anticholinergic Activity of 107 Medications Commonly Used by Older Adults](https://scholariq.org/papers/anticholinergic-activity-of-107-medications-commonly-used-by-older-adults/)
- [From “retailers” to health care providers: Transforming the role of community pharmacists in chronic disease management](https://scholariq.org/papers/from-retailers-to-health-care-providers-transforming-the-role-of-community/)
- [Medication Therapy Management Interventions in Outpatient Settings](https://scholariq.org/papers/medication-therapy-management-interventions-in-outpatient-settings/)
- [Recommendations and guidance for providing pharmaceutical care services during COVID-19 pandemic: A China perspective](https://scholariq.org/papers/recommendations-and-guidance-for-providing-pharmaceutical-care-services-during/)
- [Do pharmacist‐led medication reviews in hospitals help reduce hospital readmissions? A systematic review and meta‐analysis](https://scholariq.org/papers/do-pharmacist-led-medication-reviews-in-hospitals-help-reduce-hospital/)
- [Randomised controlled trial of clinical medication review by a pharmacist of elderly patients receiving repeat prescriptions in general practice](https://scholariq.org/papers/randomised-controlled-trial-of-clinical-medication-review-by-a-pharmacist-of/)
- [Managing Medications in Clinically Complex Elders](https://scholariq.org/papers/managing-medications-in-clinically-complex-elders/)
- [Polypharmacy in Nursing Home in Europe: Results From the SHELTER Study](https://scholariq.org/papers/polypharmacy-in-nursing-home-in-europe-results-from-the-shelter-study/)
- [Polypharmacy, length of hospital stay, and in-hospital mortality among elderly patients in internal medicine wards. The REPOSI study](https://scholariq.org/papers/polypharmacy-length-of-hospital-stay-and-in-hospital-mortality-among-elderly/)
- [What is the epidemiology of medication errors, error-related adverse events and risk factors for errors in adults managed in community care contexts? A systematic review of the international literature](https://scholariq.org/papers/what-is-the-epidemiology-of-medication-errors-error-related-adverse-events-and/)

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