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Challenge Of Changing Nursing Home Prescribing Culture, Jennifer Tjia, Jerry Gurwitz, Becky Briesacher
Challenge Of Changing Nursing Home Prescribing Culture, Jennifer Tjia, Jerry Gurwitz, Becky Briesacher
Jennifer Tjia
This article described a framework for improving prescribing in nursing homes (NH) by focusing on the whole facility as a system that has created a "prescribing culture." We offered this paradigm as an alternative to focused interventions that target prescribers only. We used the example of atypical antipsychotics to illustrate the approach. We also highlighted elements of the NH culture change movement that are germane to medication prescribing, and illustrated which elements of NH culture were shown to be associated with suboptimal quality of care. We concluded by describing current models, including our study funded by the Agency for Healthcare …