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Maturitas, 2016
Older people with chronic disease have great potential to benefit from their medications but are also at high risk of harm from their medications. The use of medications is particularly important for symptom control and disease progression in older people.
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Older people with chronic disease have great potential to benefit from their medications but are also at high risk of harm from their medications. The use of medications is particularly important for symptom control and disease progression in older people.
Christopher Etherton-Beer +2 more
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BMJ, 2020
Twenty years ago Prescrire International said that the effects of cholinesterase inhibitors were “only moderate and of doubtful clinical significance.”1 Nothing much has changed, judging by the French government’s decision to stop reimbursing this group of drugs, as discussed by Walsh and colleagues.2 The cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine seem ...
Iliffe, Steve, Manthorpe, Jill
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Twenty years ago Prescrire International said that the effects of cholinesterase inhibitors were “only moderate and of doubtful clinical significance.”1 Nothing much has changed, judging by the French government’s decision to stop reimbursing this group of drugs, as discussed by Walsh and colleagues.2 The cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine seem ...
Iliffe, Steve, Manthorpe, Jill
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Thoughtful Prescribing and Deprescribing
Medical Clinics of North America, 2020Polypharmacy, the use of five or more medications, is common in older adults. It can lead to the use of potentially inappropriate medications and severe adverse outcomes. Deprescribing is an essential step of the thoughtful prescribing process and it can decrease the use of potentially inappropriate medications.
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Deprescribing: An educational imperative
Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 2019The Bruyère Evidence-Based Deprescribing Guideline Symposium included a forum on health professional education that brought together health professionals, researchers, professional organization representatives and public members. The goal was to facilitate partnerships among educators and to build knowledge, skills and support for behaviour change to ...
Lalitha, Raman-Wilms +3 more
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Rational Deprescribing in the Elderly
Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 2019Background Polypharmacy, defined as being prescribed 5 or more medications, has been shown to be associated with a decline in mental and physical functioning in elderly patients. Despite this, elderly patients are currently being prescribed a median of 7 medications, which often causes more harm than benefit, and emphasizes the
Scott, Williams +3 more
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Pharmacotherapy and Deprescribing
2019This chapter discusses the concept and practice of deprescribing. Deprescribing has been defined as the process of identifying and withdrawing an inappropriate medication, supervised by a health-care professional. Evidence on the outcomes of deprescribing (benefits and safety) is presented followed by a discussion of the barriers to, enablers of and ...
Reeve, Emily +2 more
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Polypharmacy, the Elderly, and Deprescribing
The Consultant Pharmacist, 2015The risks of polypharmacy are heightened in the elderly because of a number of factors including age-related physiologic changes and the presence of comorbid conditions. Polypharmacy is a strong predictor of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use in the elderly in which harm may outweigh potential benefits.
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The Senior Care Pharmacist, 2021
An article published in the JAMA Network in the final days of 2020 titled "Just Do It - Everyone Should Follow the Guidelines," indicates that not everyone is receiving the message about polypharmacy. Though not a paper about medications, the "just do it" article provides an example of the prevailing culture in healthcare - guidelines become rules, and,
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An article published in the JAMA Network in the final days of 2020 titled "Just Do It - Everyone Should Follow the Guidelines," indicates that not everyone is receiving the message about polypharmacy. Though not a paper about medications, the "just do it" article provides an example of the prevailing culture in healthcare - guidelines become rules, and,
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Building Demand for Deprescribing Expertise: Pharmacists as Deprescribing Care Coordinators
The Senior Care Pharmacist, 2023A number of barriers to deprescribing exist, with knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy often highlighted by prescribers within an interrupted, siloed nature of the existing health care system. Thus, deprescribing is not likely to occur without a change in the system.
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To deprescribe or not to deprescribe, that is the question
Pharmacy Today, 2022openaire +1 more source