Identify the OBRA 1987 requirements for nursing home facilities funded by the federal government.
What will be an ideal response?
Patients must not receive unnecessary medications.
Patients cannot be prescribed antipsychotic drugs unless they are appropriate for a specific patient condition.
Patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs will receive gradual dose reductions, or behavioral programming in an effort to discontinue the drugs.
The home must have no significant medication error rates and patients must also have no significant medication errors.
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