Deprescribing: Practical Ways to Support Person-Centred, Evidence-Based Deprescribing

Methodology for Developing Deprescribing Guidelines: Using Evidence and GRADE to Guide Recommendations for Deprescribing

BACKGROUND Class specific deprescribing guidelines could help clinicians taper and stop medications no longer needed or which may be causing more harm than benefit. We set out to develop methodology to create such guidelines using evidence-based methods for guideline development, evidence synthesis and recommendation rating. METHODS AND FINDINGS Using a comprehensive checklist for a successfu...

Evidence-Based Deprescribing: Reversing the Tide of Potentially Inappropriate Polypharmacy

Vol. 23, No. 8 August 2016 JCOM 359 AbstrAct • Objective: To review the adverse drug events (ADEs) risk of polypharmacy; the process of deprescribing and evidence of efficacy in reducing inappropriate polypharmacy; the enablers and barriers to deprescribing; and patient and system of care level strategies that can be employed to enhance deprescribing. • Methods: Literature review. • Results: In...

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Factors influencing deprescribing habits among geriatricians.

BACKGROUND deprescribing habits among physicians managing older, frailer, cognitively impaired patients have not been well investigated. METHODS an anonymised electronic survey was disseminated to all members of an international geriatric society/local advanced trainee network (N = 930). This comprised a Likert-scale analysis of factors influencing desprescribing, and five case vignettes, det...

Polypharmacy vs. Deprescribing

Usually, the elderly and patients with chronic diseases visit several doctors and are supposed to take multiple medications. The multiplicity of medications is called polypharmacy and it may cause side effects, drug interactions and other helth issues for the patient, and it might go as far as the patient might need to go to the hospital and be admitted in ICU, or even further and be the cause ...