Pharmaceutical care vs usual care: The proportion of patients with one or more potentially inappropriate medication (PIM)
It is very uncertain whether pharmaceutical care changes the proportion of patients with one or more potentially… compared with usual care (very low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Pharmaceutical care vs usual care The proportion of patients with one or more potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) · older people receiving polypharmacy It is very uncertain whether pharmaceutical care changes the proportion of patients with one or more potentially… compared with usual care (very low certainty). Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people (2023) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.81 [0.68, 0.98] | 13 studies · 4534 participants | Very low |
Pharmaceutical care vs usual care The proportion of patients with one or more potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) · older people receiving polypharmacy Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people (2018) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD008165.PUB4, superseded | no estimate extracted | 11 studies · 3079 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people 2023 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.