Patient Partnership Tools to Support Medication Safety in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Stepped Wedge Clinical Trial

Yan Xiao   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Kimberley G Fulda   ³ , DrPH ;   Richard A Young   ⁴ , MD ;   Z Noah Hendrix   ¹ , MS ;   Kathryn M Daniel   ^{1 †} , PhD ;   Kay Yut Chen   ⁵ , PhD ;   Yuan Zhou   ² , PhD ;   Jennifer L Roye   ¹ , MSN ;   Ludmila Kosmari   ¹ , MSN ;   Joshua Wilson   ⁶ , MFA ;   Anna M Espinoza   ³ , MD ;   Kathleen M Sutcliffe   ^{7, 8, 9, 10} , PhD ;   Samantha I Pitts   ⁸ , MD ;   Alicia I Arbaje   ^{8, 9} , MD, MPH, PhD ;   Michelle A Chui   ¹¹ , PharmD, PhD ;   Somer Blair   ¹² , PhD ;   Dawn Sloan   ⁴ , MD ;   Masheika Jackson   ⁴ , MD ;   Ayse P Gurses   ^{8, 9, 13} , MPH, PhD

¹ College of Nursing and Health Innovation, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States

² College of Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States

³ Department of Family Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and North Texas Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network (NorTex), University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, United States

⁴ Family Medicine Residency Program, John Peter Smith Health Network, Fort Worth, TX, United States

⁵ College of Business, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States

⁶ College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States

⁷ Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁸ School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁹ Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

¹⁰ School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

¹¹ School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

¹² Office of Clinical Research, John Peter Smith Health Network, Fort Worth, TX, United States

¹³ Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

†deceased