Oral Medication Management in Home Health Agencies

Book excerpt: "This quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive research study focused on home health agency characteristics and evidence-based clinical practices that could impact the ability to improve medication management for home health patients. The study identified evidence-based practices related to managing oral medications based on a survey of Medicare-certified home health agencies in Minnesota ... Four evidence-based practices were associated with better rates for the oral medication management outcome. These were the use of reminder strategies, phone follow-up, repeat patient education about their medications at future home care visits, and the use of medication simplification strategies for patients on multiple medications"--leaf 4.