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Predicting Antidepressant Deprescription with Machine Learning Using Administrative Data.

open access: yesStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
The high prevalence of failed antidepressant deprescription attempts makes it difficult for clinicians to identify suitable candidates for discontinuation. In this study, we use the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) dataset, which contains rich longitudinal dispensing data from Australian primary care and developed supervised models to predict ...
R. A. D. L. M. K. Ranwala, A. Q. Andrade
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

TOWARD: a metabolic health intervention that improves food addiction and binge eating symptoms

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Food Addiction is an increasingly relevant clinical and public health issue given its impact on metabolic health, mental health, and quality of life. Therapeutic carbohydrate reduction (TCR) has been shown to improve the symptoms of food addiction as ...
Erin M Saner   +6 more
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Control Task Analysis of the Deprescription Process: A Pilot Study

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2023
Deprescription is the process by which a physician supervises a patient’s withdrawal or dose reduction of a given medication due to side effects or diminishing efficacy. Prior studies on the process of deprescription have resulted in a number of models, two of which are used in this pilot study alongside the decision ladder to construct a novel ...
Connor Wurst   +7 more
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Comparative effectiveness of interventions to facilitate deprescription of benzodiazepines and other sedative hypnotics: systematic review and meta-analysis

British medical journal
Objective To review evidence from randomised trials assessing the effectiveness of strategies to deprescribe benzodiazepines and closely related sedative hypnotics (BSH). Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
Dena Zeraatkar   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Identification of the Potential Pharmacotherapeutic Risk in Hospitalized Geriatric Patients

Cureus
Introduction: Geriatric patients need carefully tailored pharmacotherapeutic approaches to minimize the risks of inappropriate treatment and hospitalizations. In Slovakia, there is a lack of studies documenting the medication use patterns in hospitalized
Anna Zupcan Vicena   +4 more
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Deprescription in Advanced Cancer Patients Referred to Palliative Care

Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 2016
In palliative care, drugs are considered futile if they do not have a short-term benefit in symptom control or quality of life. The authors examined pharmacotherapy prescribed for patients referred to palliative care to identify futile drugs. This was a retrospective analysis of patients referred over 6 months, focusing on the prescription of gastric ...
Liliana, Oliveira   +4 more
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Evaluating the role of clinical decision support systems in medication safety for older people: a systematic review

Age and Ageing
Background Older people are particularly vulnerable to medication errors and adverse drug events (ADEs) due to polypharmacy and age-related physiological changes.
Yaoyi Ng   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Deprescription in elderly: A spotlight on pharmacoeconomic aspect

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, 2019
AbstractAging is a complex process and many factors in the elderly, especially multiple diseases and related unnecessary drug use, support a deprescription approach to this age group to save money and health cost. In this review, we have searched for studies related to the pharmacoeconomic aspect of this deprescription approach in the elderly.
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125 A strategy for urinary incontinence treatment deprescription

Poster presentations, 2018
Objectives To evaluate the impact of a strategy for the optimization of the urinary incontinence treatment in patients with diapers. In aged patients, the use of drugs for urinary incontinence contributes to increase the risk of suffering adverse effects such as delirium, tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, dry mouth, falls, eye dryness or constipation.
Natalia Alzueta   +8 more
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Good clinical practice recommendations for proton pump inhibitor prescription and deprescription. A review by experts from the AMG.

Revista de Gastroenterología de México
INTRODUCTION AND AIM Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are widely known drugs that are used quite frequently and indicated in both the short and long terms, in numerous acid-related diseases.
L. R. Valdovinos-García   +17 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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