Many post-acute care patients and long-term care residents require the use of multiple medications and rely on prescribers and pharmacy staff to ensure proper medication, dosage, and frequency. However, minimizing the risk of medication-related side effects and errors is difficult due to a number of variables, such as care transitions from hospital to LTC, or a patient being under the care of multiple specialists.

Identifying opportunities to improve the medication management process and deprescribing medications can reduce medication-related risk to the patient and increase staff efficiency. Discussions in this webinar focus on:

• Why polypharmacy is so common in post-acute and long-term care and the dangers it poses
• Common pitfalls that lead to polypharmacy and how to overcome them
• The difference between medication review and medication reconciliation 
• Tools for deprescribing and how it can reduce risks and decrease the burden on staff