The New Playbook for Ditching Dangerous Senior Meds
A new tool presented by the American Geriatrics Society may help clinicians find safer medication alternatives for geriatric patients.
According to the Medscape article The New Playbook for Ditching Dangerous Senior Meds, a panel of clinicians and researchers spent months identifying and reviewing safer options for high-risk medications. The tool will be utilized with the AGS Beers criteria. The tool will be accessible in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and here http://geriatricscareonline.org
This article falls under Clinical/Patient Safety in the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) risk domains.
Clinical/Patient Safety
Risks associated with the delivery of care to patients, residents and other health care customers. Clinical risks include failure to follow evidence-based practice, medication errors, hospital acquired conditions (HAC), serious safety events (SSE), health care equity, opportunities to improve safety within the care environments, and others.