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Medication Regimen Complexity In 8 Australian Residential Aged Care Facilities: Impact Of Age, Length Of Stay, Comorbidity, Frailty, And Dependence In Activities Of Daily Living

Esa YH Chen1 Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, VIC, Australia;2 NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Hornsby, NSW, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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J Simon Bell1 Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, VIC, Australia;2 NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Hornsby, NSW, Australia;3 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Jenni Ilomaki2 NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Hornsby, NSW, Australia;3 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0348-9441
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Claire Keen1 Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, VIC, AustraliaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4875-1300
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Megan Corlis2 NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Hornsby, NSW, Australia;4 Helping Hand Aged Care, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Michelle Hogan4 Helping Hand Aged Care, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Jan Van Emden2 NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Hornsby, NSW, Australia;4 Helping Hand Aged Care, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Sarah N Hilmer2 NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Hornsby, NSW, Australia;5 Kolling Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney and Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia
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Janet K Sluggett1 Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, VIC, Australia;2 NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Hornsby, NSW, AustraliaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9059-5209
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Pages 1783-1795 | Published online: 22 Oct 2019

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Janet K Sluggett, Choon Ean Ooi, Stephanie Gibson, Manya T Angley, Megan Corlis, Michelle E Hogan, Tessa Caporale, Georgina A Hughes, Jan Van Emden & J Simon Bell. (2020) Simplifying Medication Regimens for People Receiving Community-Based Home Care Services: Outcomes of a Non-Randomized Pilot and Feasibility Study. Clinical Interventions in Aging 15, pages 797-809.
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Monica Sharma, Xin Yee Wong, J Simon Bell, Megan Corlis, Michelle Hogan & Janet K. Sluggett. (2021) Trajectories of pro re nata (PRN) medication prescribing and administration in long-term care facilities. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 17:8, pages 1463-1468.
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Janet K. Sluggett, Georgina A. Hughes, Choon Ean Ooi, Esa Y. H. Chen, Megan Corlis, Michelle E. Hogan, Tessa Caporale, Jan Van Emden & J. Simon Bell. (2021) Process Evaluation of the SImplification of Medications Prescribed to Long-tErm Care Residents (SIMPLER) Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial: A Mixed Methods Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18:11, pages 5778.
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Nicolas Dugré, J. Simon Bell, Ria E. Hopkins, Jenni Ilomäki, Esa Y. H. Chen, Megan Corlis, Jan Van Emden, Michelle Hogan & Janet K. Sluggett. (2021) Impact of Medication Regimen Simplification on Medication Incidents in Residential Aged Care: SIMPLER Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Clinical Medicine 10:5, pages 1104.
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Armanda Teixeira-Gomes, Bruna Lage, Filipa Esteves, Ana Catarina Sousa, M. Ramiro Pastorinho, Vanessa Valdiglesias, Solange Costa, Blanca Laffon & João Paulo Teixeira. (2020) Frailty syndrome, biomarkers and environmental factors – A pilot study. Toxicology Letters 330, pages 14-22.
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Janet K. Sluggett, Esa Y.H. Chen, Jenni Ilomäki, Megan Corlis, Jan Van Emden, Michelle Hogan, Tessa Caporale, Claire Keen, Ria Hopkins, Choon Ean Ooi, Sarah N. Hilmer, Georgina A. Hughes, Andrew Luu, Kim-Huong Nguyen, Tracy Comans, Susan Edwards, Lyntara Quirke, Allan Patching & J. Simon Bell. (2020) Reducing the Burden of Complex Medication Regimens: SImplification of Medications Prescribed to Long-tErm care Residents (SIMPLER) Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 21:8, pages 1114-1120.e4.
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