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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.672
igaa057.672
Abstracts
Session 2895 (Poster)
Medication Issues
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Pharmacist-Led Audits for Older Adults With Cancer Yield Significant Interventions
Erdeljac Hilary 1 Yager Stephanie 2 McClain Megan 2 Wall Sarah 2 Presley Carolyn 2 Folefac Edmund 2 Rosko Ashley 3 1 
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States
2 
James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States
3 
The James Cancer Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”208 208
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Older adults with cancer have comorbidities that require medical management and confounders of chemotherapy and supportive medications exacerbate polypharmacy. A multidisciplinary team model was created to address these needs within the Cancer Aging and Resiliency (CARE) clinic. To reconcile medications for accuracy, compliance, side effects, and effectiveness, a pharmacist-led audit includes identification of potential therapeutic duplications, drug-drug interactions, or potential medication inappropriateness identified using Beers criteria. A pharmacist led review of patient’s prescriptions can identify drug therapy problems (DTP) and result in safer medication management. METHODS: A retrospective review of pharmacy specific interventions was conducted using CARE Clinic patient data from February 2016 to October 2019 evaluating data from n=259 patients. RESULTS: A preliminary analysis of n=137 patients who had received medication reconciliation were included. The mean number of medications per patient was 13.1 ± 5.7 and 457 DTP were identified leading to 523 medication related interventions. There was an average of 3.3 DTP per patient. The most common types of DTP included medication reconciliation (n=137, 30.0%), potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) (n=74, 16.2%), administration/technique (n=35, 7.7%), and drug-drug interaction (n=28, 6.1%). The most frequent types of interventions involved education to the patient (n=166, 31.7%), medication reconciliation (n=137, 26.2%), medication discontinuation (n=84, 16.1%), patient to discuss further with physician (n=39, 7.5%), and medication initiated (n=35, 6.7%). Updated results involving approximately 259 patients will be presented. CONCLUSION: Comprehensive medication review within a multidisciplinary setting for the management of older adults with cancer can reduce polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use.