PA Rochon, M Petrovic, A Cherubini… - The Lancet Healthy …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Polypharmacy is very common in older adults and increases the risk of inappropriate and unsafe prescribing for older adults. Older adults, particularly women (who make up the …
Objective To examine the effect of optimising drug treatment on drug related hospital admissions in older adults with multimorbidity and polypharmacy admitted to hospital …
P Martin, R Tamblyn, A Benedetti, S Ahmed… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance High rates of inappropriate prescribing persist among older adults in many outpatient settings, increasing the risk of adverse drug events and drug-related …
Inappropriate polypharmacy, especially in older people, imposes a substantial burden of adverse drug events, ill health, disability, hospitalization, and even death. The single most …
AT Page, RM Clifford, K Potter… - British journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Deprescribing is a suggested intervention to reverse the potential iatrogenic harms of inappropriate polypharmacy. The review aimed to determine whether or not deprescribing is …
Deprescribing can be defined as the process of withdrawal or dose reduction of medications which are considered inappropriate in an individual. The aim of this narrative review is to …
EG McDonald, PE Wu, B Rashidi… - JAMA internal …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Scalable deprescribing interventions may reduce polypharmacy and the use of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs); however, few studies have been large enough …
M Markota, TA Rummans, JM Bostwick… - Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2016 - Elsevier
Several major medical and psychiatric organizations, including the American Geriatrics Society, advise against using benzodiazepines or nonbenzodiazepine hypnotics in older …
Too much medicine in older people? Deprescribing through shared decision making Page 1 Too much medicine in older people? Deprescribing through shared decision making Jansen and …