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Bayliss, EA, Albers, K, Gleason, K, et al. Recommendations for outcome measurement for deprescribing intervention studies. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022; 1- 11. doi:10.1111/jgs.17894 The US Deprescribing Research Network’s very own Measures Workgroup recently published recommendations for selecting and using outcomes for deprescribing interventions in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Authors point to …

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Thompson W, Jarbøl D, Nielsen JB, Haastrup P, Pedersen LB. GP preferences for discussing statin deprescribing: a discrete choice experiment. Fam Pract. 2022;39(1):26-31. doi:10.1093/fampra/cmab075 Although there is ample evidence on the benefits of deprescribing for older patients, providers’ deprescribing-related communication preferences are less understood. Given that clinicians often have the greatest influence on patients’ deprescribing …

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Moriarty F, Thompson W, Boland F. Methods for evaluating the benefit and harms of deprescribing in observational research using routinely collected data. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2022;18(2):2269-2275. doi:10.1016/j.sapharm.2021.05.007 Recent advances in pharmacoepidemiology have allowed researchers to apply randomized controlled trial (RCT) principles to observational data. These advances have resulted in better estimates of medication harms …

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McDonald EG, Wu PE, Rashidi B, et al. The MedSafer Study-Electronic Decision Support for Deprescribing in Hospitalized Older Adults: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial [published online ahead of print, 2022 Jan 18]. JAMA Intern Med. 2022;10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.7429. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.7429 A team of researchers investigated the impact of MedSafer, an electronic deprescribing tool based on electronic health record …

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 McConeghy, K. W., Cinque, M., White, E. M., Feifer, R. A., Blackman, C., Mor, V., Gravenstein, S., & Zullo, A. R. (2021). Lessons for deprescribing from a nonessential medication hold policy in US nursing homes. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17512   The COVID-19 pandemic caused nursing homes to rapidly adapt to new care …

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Budnitz DS, Shehab N, Lovegrove MC, Geller AI, Lind JN, Pollock DA. US Emergency Department Visits Attributed to Medication Harms, 2017-2019. JAMA. 2021;326(13):1299–1309. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.13844   Medication risk assessment should account for both therapeutic use as well as nontherapeutic use. Therapeutic use refers to medications taken as prescribed, while nontherapeutic use refers to unsupervised medication use, medication misuse …

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Niznik, J.D., Aspinall, S.L., Hanson, L.C. et al. Patterns of Oral Bisphosphonate Deprescribing in Older Nursing Home Residents with Dementia. Osteoporos Int. Sep 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-021-06141-9 Dr. Niznik and colleagues determines the incidence of deprescribing bisphosphonates among nursing home residents with dementia, and identified factors associated with deprescribing bisphosphonates. Dr. Niznik and team point to the …

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Rochon, PA et al. Polypharmacy, Inappropriate Prescribing, and Deprescribing in Older People: Through a Sex and Gender Lens. Lancet Healthy Longev. 2021 May; 2(5) e290-300. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-7568(21)00054-4 Appropriate prescribing and medication optimization is important as older adults age, but little attention has been paid to the sex and gender differences of prescribing in older age. …

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Gurwitz JH, Kapoor A, Garber L, et al. Effect of a Multifaceted Clinical Pharmacist Intervention on Medication Safety After Hospitalization in Persons Prescribed High-risk Medications: A Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA Intern Med. Mar 2021. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.9285 A randomized clinical trial recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine sought to test the effects of a pharmacist-led intervention to …

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Green AR, et al. Designing a Primary Care-Based Deprescribing Intervention for Patients with Dementia and Multiple Chronic Conditions: A Qualitative Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Dec;35(12):3556-63. DOI: 10.1007/s11606-020-06063-y. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Kaiser Permanente Colorado conducted a qualitative study to determine patient, caregiver, and physician preferences for discussing deprescribing in primary care …

How can we improve deprescribing communication among patients with dementia and multiple chronic conditions?
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