Download or read book Effectiveness of Medication Review: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials written by Naperville Naperville Press and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medication review is often recommended to optimize medication use. In clinical practice it is mostly operationalized as an intervention without co-interventions during a short term intervention period. However, most systematic reviews also included co-interventions and prolonged medication optimization interventions. Furthermore, most systematic reviews focused on specific patient groups (e.g. polypharmacy, elderly, hospitalized) and/or on specific outcome measures (e.g. hospital admissions and mortality). Therefore, the objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of medication review as an isolated short-term intervention, irrespective of the patient population and the outcome measures used. Proceeds from the sale of this book go to support an elderly disabled person.