Medication deviation and its influencing factors during the hospital-home transition in elderly patients with chronic comorbidities
WU Jing
ZHANG Qin
CHENG Ting
PENG Hui
LIU Yaqiong
WANG Yuanyuan
HAN Yonghong
Abstract：Objective To investigate the status of medication deviation in the hospital-home transition period of elderly patients with chronic diseases and analyze its influencing factors.Methods Totally 264 elderly patients hospitalized in the general department of the author's hospital between November 2023 and April 2024 were selected and surveyed using a general condition questionnaire,minimum mental state examination,Morisky medication adherence scale and medication discrepancy assessment tool.Results During the hospital-home transition,the incidence of medication deviations among the elderly patients was 60.61％,with the main type of missing medications.Logistic regression analysis showed that the number of chronic diseases,medication compliance and cognitive function were the factors that affected the medication deviations.Conclusion The incidence of medication deviations is high in the hospital-family transition period of elderly patients with chronic diseases,and is influenced by cognitive function,medication compliance and the number of their chronic diseases.Therefore,medical staff should develop personalized out-of-hospital medication management measures to lower it.
Keywords：Elderly peopleChronic comorbiditiesHospital-home transition periodMedication deviation
Publication Date：2025-02-20
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 73-77 )