Deprescribing in paediatrics

[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...

Paediatrics

THIS book discusses the management outside hospital of common paediatric problems encountered in the community. The topics selected are well written, informative and expertly illustrated. It helps fill a gap left by the much larger number of hospital based paediatric books and provides relevant information for general practitioners, community based paediatricians and medical students. Although ...

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...

Community paediatrics in crisis.

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