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How to dramatically reduce inappropriate ulcer-prevention prescriptions.

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August 6, 2020
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The inappropriate prescribing of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) is well-documented, as are the harms they can cause to patients who don’t need them, ranging from chronic kidney disease and pneumonia to hip fractures.

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Yet despite evidence-based guidelines and deprescribing efforts at hospitals and clinics worldwide, these medications, commonly known as PPIs, are still often inappropriately prescribed.

Now, internal medicine residents at the University at Buffalo, along with their UB faculty mentors, have dramatically reduced from 80% to 30% inappropriate PPI prescriptions at an academic medicine clinic at Erie County Medical Center, a teaching hospital of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.

 

They did it by using the plan-do-study-act model that is widely utilized throughout healthcare. Using a combination of educational interventions aimed at both providers and patients, as well as a customized electronic health record template, the clinic succeeded in reducing inappropriate PPI prescriptions to a level far below its original goal of 60%.

The research was published online in February in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. Naren Nallapeta, MD, a UB resident in the Department of Medicine in the Jacobs School, is first author and Jessica Reynolds, PhD, research associate professor of medicine in the Jacobs School, is a co-author. Smita Bakhai, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine in the Jacobs School and a physician with UBMD Internal Medicine, is senior author.

Under Bakhai’s leadership, the medical residents working at the clinic determined that 80% of clinic patients had been inappropriately prescribed PPIs for an average of four to five years. The goal was to get that down to 60% within a year and then to continue to reduce the number of patients who had been inappropriately prescribed these drugs.

Many PPI prescriptions begin in the hospital

“Most patients who are on PPIs started while they were in-patients ,” explained Bakhai. “Maybe they were critically ill, so the doctor prescribed it for prevention of stress ulcer. The problem is, these drugs continue to be prescribed for patients after hospital discharge and for a long time, sometimes years, without any medical evidence as to why they should take them.”

She noted that there are criteria for keeping a patient on a long-term PPI, such as a diagnosis of an ulcer or other findings, which are best diagnosed with an endoscopy. “But we found patients on PPIs for many years who had never had an endoscopy,” she said, “so how could it be known if they had an ulcer or other findings?”

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Bakhai and her colleagues also discovered that many of the PPI prescriptions had been written for their psychiatric patients. “We are the primary care clinic for the area’s group homes and we found that many patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other serious mental illnesses had been prescribed these medications while in-patients,” she said.

Source : https://www.mdlinx.com/news/how-to-dramatically-reduce-inappropriate-ulcer-prevention-prescriptions/6Mcjh7c85L0w21FPrKMras

 

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