Perspective of older people on which medicines they need to report to healthcare professionals as part of a medicines history: a qualitative descriptive study
This study highlights the variation between participants' perspectives in reporting medicines, suggesting that older people's self-reporting of medicines is generally inconsistent. Our findings encourage clinicians to specifically enquire about medicines for acute health conditions, medicines commonly not prescribed by healthcare professionals, irregular medicines, and non-oral medicines to improve reporting by older people, to obtain the Best Possible Medication History.
Authors
- Christopher Etherton‐Beer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5148-0188)
- Amy Page (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2084-8469)
- Joon Park
- Kenneth Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3022-4868)
- Emily Griffin
Institutions
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Monash Health (AU)
- Monash University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
- Published
- 2025-03-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-025-01890-7
- Primary Topic
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- University of Western Australia