Improving Medication Prescribing-Related Outcomes for Vulnerable Elderly In Transitions on High Risk Medications (IMPROVE-IT HRM): A Pilot Randomized Trial Protocol

ABSTRACT Rationale Transitions in, through, and out of hospital define the highest risk periods for patient safety. Hospitalized senior high-cost health care users taking high risk medications, are a large group of patients, usually highly complex with polypharmacy, and at high risk of serious adverse medication events. We will assess whether an expert Clinical Pharmacology Toxicology (CPT) medication management intervention during …