Bonnie J Bereznicki

TL;DR: There is a clear need to investigate the utility of tools to identify high-risk patients to target appropriate interventions toward prevention of ADR-related hospital admissions, and the cost-effectiveness of such strategies would be necessary to target them to those older individuals who are at highest risk of ADRs.

TL;DR: Clinicians need to take a holistic approach including attention to comorbidities in the pre-discharge care of patients with COPD exacerbations to reduce the potential risk of readmission.

TL;DR: The number of antihypertensives was the strongest predictor of an ADR followed by presence of dementia, renal failure, drug changes in the preceding 3 months and use of anticholinergic medications; these variables were used to derive the ADR prediction score.

TL;DR: Using community pharmacy medication records to identify patients whose asthma may not be well managed and then implement and evaluate a multidisciplinary educational intervention to improve asthma management is used.

TL;DR: It is suggested that community pharmacists are ideally placed to identify patients with suboptimal asthma management and refer such patients for a review by their GP, as evidenced by pharmacy dispensing records.