Providing education with emphasis on the importance of medication would help these individuals to be responsible of the medication management process.
To develop procedures and instruments for a home medication review (HMR) and medication management process for PWD living at home, specifically for Germany.
At a scheduled point in time, the home medication review is repeated to evaluate the success of the medication management process.
6 Research into causes of medication problems has tended to focus on identifying and classifying errors in the medication management process.
The procedures of the medication management process are part of a standard operating procedure (SOP), which is updated regularly in the study center.
Quality use of medicines is the judicious, effective and safe use of medicines, and in terms of clinical software functionality it encompasses the entire medication management process.
2. To describe the implementation of such an HMR and medication management process as one module in a primary care intervention trial designed to deliver optimum care to PWD living at home.
Presently, there is a lack of instruments available for medication review and for medication management even though the SOAP (Subjective and Objective problem Assessment, and Planning of improvement) scheme, which is based on pharmaceutical care, can help with the medication management process [ 22].
Factors contributing to the safety of medication process were identified at three levels: individual (eg, interactions between nurses and the technology when administering medications), collective (eg, verbal communications supporting cooperation during the medication management process) and organisational (eg, distribution of tasks across different healthcare professionals).
BA: Behavioural activation; CC: Collaborative care; CM: Case manager; GP: General practitioner; IAPT: Increasing access to psychological therapies; MM: Medication management; NICE National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence NPTPT: Normalisation process theory; NPM: Normalisation process model; RCT: Randomised controlled trial.
