Table 3 Mapping of identified indicator sets to core medication-related criteria
From: Evaluating medication-related quality of care in residential aged care: a systematic review
Name of indicator/indicator set | Medication-related quality of care attributes relevant to residential aged care in Australia (+ = present) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Medication appropriateness for the most prevalent chronic diseases | Medication appropriateness in limited life expectancy | General medication appropriateness | Detection & monitoring of adverse drug events | Access to services (e.g. medication review and care plans) | Medication-related policy and procedures | |
Resident-centred quality indicators in residential aged care or The Campbell Report (Campbell Research and Consulting (CR&C) (Campbell Research and Consulting (CR&C) 2006)) | - | - | + | + | - | - |
Public Sector Residential Aged Care Quality of Care Performance Indicators (Nay et al. 2004) | - | - | + | + | - | - |
Clinical Care Indicators Tool or CCI or Uniting Care Clinical Care Indicators (Courtney et al. 2007; Courtney et al. 2010) | - | - | + | + | + | - |
National indicators of safety and quality in health care (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2009) | + | - | + | + | + | - |
Minimum Data Set (version 3.0) Nursing Home Quality measures (Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services & USA: www.cms.gov Accessed [February 2014; Zimmerman et al. 1995; Hawes et al. 1997) | - | - | + | + | - | - |
Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (version 3) or ACOVE–3 (Wegner et al. 2007) (USA) | + | - | + | + | + | + |
Healthcare effectiveness data and information set or HEDIS (National Committee for Quality Assurance & USA: www.ncqa.org Accessed [September 2013) | + | - | + | + | + | - |
Quality and Outcomes Framework or QOF (Primary Care & Social Care Information Centre 2013) | + | - | + | - | + | + |
Guiding principles for medication management in residential aged care facilities (Department of Health 2012) | - | - | - | - | + | + |
Indicators for Quality Use of Medicines in Australian Hospitals (NSW Therapeutic Assessment Group 2007) | + | - | + | - | - | - |
Indicators for Quality Prescribing in Australian General Practice (National Prescribing Service 2006) | + | - | + | - | + | + |
Preventable Drug Related Morbidity (PDRM) (Mackinnon & Hepler 2002; Robertson & MacKinnon 2002; Morris et al. 2002) | + | - | + | + | - | - |
Australian Prescribing Indicators Tool (Basger et al. 2008) | + | - | + | - | - | - |
Drug Burden Index or DBI (Hilmer et al. 2007) | - | - | + | - | - | - |
The PRISCUS List (Holt et al. 2010) | - | - | + | - | - | - |
Inappropriate Prescribing in the Elderly Tool or IPET (McLeod et al. 1997; Naugler et al. 2000) | + | - | + | - | - | - |
Beer’s criteria (The American Geriatrics Society 2012) | + | - | + | - | - | - |
Medication Appropriateness Index or MAI (Hanlon et al. 1992) | - | - | + | - | - | - |
NORGEP criteria for assessing inappropriate prescriptions to elderly patients (Rognstad et al. 2009) | - | - | + | - | - | - |
Criteria for drug selection in frail elderly patients (Huisman-Baron et al. 2011) | - | - | + | - | - | - |
Screening Tool of Older Person’s Prescriptions (STOPP) and Screening Tool to Alert to Right Treatment (START) (O'Mahony et al. 2010; Barry et al. 2007; Gallagher & O'Mahony 2008) | + | + | + | - | - | - |
Criteria for high-risk medication use (Winit-Watjana et al. 2008) | - | - | + | - | - | - |
Potentially inappropriate medications in the elderly: a French consensus panel (Laroche et al. 2007) | - | - | + | - | - | - |
Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions for older patients in long-term care or PIP (Rancourt et al. 2004) | - | - | + | - | - | - |
CRIteria to assess appropriate Medication use among Elderly complex patients or CRIME criteria (Onder et al. 2013) | + | + | + | - | - | - |