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August 18, 2025British Journal of Clinical PharmacologyOpen Access

Quality indicators for safe and effective use of medications in long‐term care settings: A systematic review

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DGDaria S. GutteridgeACA. G. CalderJSJacquelina Stasinopoulos

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Overview

Systematic review identifies quality indicators for safe medication use in long-term care, suggesting improvements for providers.

Key Points

  • The review identifies 53 quality indicator sets to enhance the safe use of medications in long-term care facilities.
  • About 80% of the quality indicators are process indicators, focusing on monitoring medication safety and effectiveness.
  • The approach involved systematic review methods to gather and analyze data from 62 articles and 16 grey literature documents.
  • This overview highlights essential measures for clinicians and policymakers to implement in aged care settings.

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Gutteridge et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af475aad7bf08b1ead43abhttps://doi.org/10.1002/bcp.70242
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