Deprescribing: A Graduation in Medicine

[Deprescribing: guiding its definition].

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...

The Ethics of Deprescribing in Older Adults.

Deprescribing is the term used to describe the process of withdrawal of an inappropriate medication supervised by a clinician. This article presents a discussion of how the Four Principles of biomedical ethics (beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice) that may guide medical practitioners' prescribing practices apply to deprescribing medications in older adults. The view of deprescri...

Challenges of deprescribing in the multimorbid patient

To cite: Cullinan S, Raae Hansen C, Byrne S, et al. Eur J Hosp Pharm 2017;24:43–46. ABSTRACT Older patients often have multimorbidity, frequently resulting in polypharmacy. Independently, multimorbidity and polypharmacy are among the biggest risk factors for inappropriate medication, adverse drug reactions, adverse drug events and morbidity, leading to patient harm and hospitalisations. After a...

Deprescribing in Frail Older People: A Randomised Controlled Trial.

OBJECTIVES Deprescribing has been proposed as a way to reduce polypharmacy in frail older people. We aimed to reduce the number of medicines consumed by people living in residential aged care facilities (RACF). Secondary objectives were to explore the effect of deprescribing on survival, falls, fractures, hospital admissions, cognitive, physical, and bowel function, quality of life, and sleep. ...