Introduction: There is increasing recognition of the need for deprescribing of inappropriate medications in older adults. However, efforts to encourage implementation of deprescribing …
Background Interrupted time series analysis is increasingly used to evaluate the impact of large-scale health interventions. While segmented regression is a common approach, it is …
M Nafti, C Sirois, E Kröger… - Annals of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The use of benzodiazepines in relation to cognitive decline remains an area of controversy in aging populations. Objective: This study aims to evaluate the risk of cognitive …
J Wang, JY Shen, Y Conwell… - Journal of internal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over half of older adults experience polypharmacy, including medications that may be inappropriate or unnecessary. Deprescribing, which is the process of discontinuing or …
L Michaud, G Kolla, K Rudzinski, A Guta - International Journal of Drug …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ongoing overdose and drug toxicity crisis in North America has contributed momentum to the emergence of safer supply prescribing and programs in Canada as a means of …
I Bai, JE Isenor, E Reeve, AM Whelan… - Research in Social and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Polypharmacy is a major global problem. Evidence in primary care shows deprescribing can be beneficial. Behaviour change theories such as the Theoretical …
M Charbonneau, SG Morgan, C Gagnon, CA Sadowski… - Health Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Background: The appropriate use of medicines has long been recognized as a fundamental component of medicine policies. We aimed to extract lessons from published research on …
X Li, JM Evans - BMC Health Services Research, 2022 - Springer
Background Health systems are increasingly implementing policy-driven programs to incentivize performance using contracts, scorecards, rankings, rewards, and penalties …
JP Turner, K Newport, AM McEvoy… - … Journal/Revue des …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Sustainable implementation of new professional services into clinical practice can be difficult. In 2019, a population-wide initiative called SaferMedsNL was implemented …