Improving medication management in home hospice patients: A pilot study of the MedCoach intervention for informal caregivers

Denys T. Lau, PhD1, Linda Ehrlich-Jones, PhD, RN2, Nathaniel Mercaldo, MS3, Brian Joyce, BA4, Marla L. Clayman, PhD, MPH5, Sydney Dy, MD6, Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD7, Judith Paice, PhD, RN8, Joseph Shega, MD9 and Janie Urbanic, MA1
(1)University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy, Chicago, IL, (2)Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, (3)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, (4)University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, (5)Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, (6)Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, (7)Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, (8)Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, (9)Vitas Innovative Hospice Care, Maitland, FL