Reducing Falls in Seniors Stage A
Thank you for enrolling in the performance improvement project. This online module has 3 stages, and you need to complete all three stages in order to claim credit. It will take you 3-6 months to fully complete this program.
In Stage A of this project, you will assess your current practice and set your improvement goals to:
- Increase the number of discussions you initiate with geriatric patients about risks (emphasizing falls) of benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, and diphenhydramine from a baseline reporting period.
- Improve your perceptions regarding geriatric patients' receptiveness to taper or discontinue the targeted medications (Likert-type scale) from a baseline-reporting period.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this session learns should be able to:
- Recognize the role primary care physicians play in the prescribing of benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, and diphenhydramine to geriatric patients.
- Link the use of benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, and diphenhydramine to falls among geriatric patients.
- Identify barriers and biases related to initiating medication deprescribing discussions in the primary care setting.
- Cite evidence that brief patient education on medication and falls can increase patients’ willingness to taper/discontinue use of benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, and diphenhydramine.
- Educate geriatric patients re: likelihood of benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, and diphenhydramine being associated with falls and their consequences as impacting patients’ function and quality of life.
Available Credit
- 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™Aurora Health Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Aurora Health Care designates this activity for a maximum of 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.