Quality standards for safe medication in nursing homes: development through a multistep approach including a Delphi consensus study (11 October 2021)

Summary

The aim of this study in BMJ Open was to develop quality standards that define minimal requirements for safe medication processes in nursing homes. After identifying key topics for medication safety from a systematic search for similar guidelines, prior work and discussions with experts, the authors specified the essential requirements for each key topic. They then evaluated these requirements with a piloted, two-round Delphi study.

The study developed 85 quality standards for safer and resident-oriented medication in Swiss nursing homes.