In a perfect health care system, patients who ended up in the hospital would start to feel better soon and go home with a recovery plan, along with any medications designed to help in that process.
“It sounds like this is so simple,” said Dr. Ranjit Singh, “but that couldn’t be further from the truth.”
The University at Buffalo will pump $4 million into research to help people live longer, healthier and more meaningful lives, the goal of a New York State Master Plan for Aging now in development.
Instead, Singh said, several kinks await patients along the way – from discharge to daily life at home, to follow-up doctor visits – that often leave patients overwhelmed and sometimes wrongly medicated.
Singh and other University at Buffalo researchers aim to smooth over some of the hitches with help from a new four-year, $1.95 million grant focused on improving medication prescribing between providers and learning more about how patients are using those drugs at home.
“These are medications that could trigger an increased risk of falling,” or worse, said Singh, associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine in the UB Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
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