Rationalising medications through deprescribing

Health Care Practitioners' Perspectives on Deprescribing Anticholinergic and Sedative Medications in Older Adults.

BACKGROUND Anticholinergic and sedative (ACh-Sed) medications are commonly prescribed for older adults and are associated with adverse events. OBJECTIVES (1) To investigate perspectives of health care practitioners (HCPs) surrounding deprescribing (withdrawal) of ACh-Sed medications in older adults; (2) to assess HCPs' perspectives on the design and implementation of a report on a patient's e...

"Healthy Anorexia": rationalising contradictions

This paper explores how young women with disordered eating rationalise their behaviour as ‘healthy’. Based on preliminary findings from an Australian Research Council grant that is investigating why people with eating disorders are reluctant to engage with treatment services, we demonstrate how young women use normative discourses of body surveillance, ‘healthy eating’ and selfdiscipline to mai...

[Deprescribing: guiding its definition].

Rationalising Eiffel's Type System

forbidding the redefinition of attribute types, inverting the routine argument redefinition rule to observe contravariance (redefined arguments should have more general types), judging type compatibility between parameterised types after replacing the type parameters and introducing an explicit type attribute scheme to handle Eiffel's anchored types. Contravariance is a counterintuitive finding...

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...