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The Bruyère Deprescribing Guidelines Research Team has developed an app to grant easy, on-demand access to its deprescribing algorithms — complementary to the resources on this website.

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Find out about Deprescribing Guidelines

Deprescribing guidelines support health care providers and patients in reducing or stopping medications that may be harmful or no longer needed.

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EMPOWER brochures help patients understand the rationale for deprescribing certain medications and explain why it is important to talk to a health care provider about deprescribing

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Find out about deprescribing research

Deprescribing research explores new tools for polypharmacy management, engaging patients in their care, and more.

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Reducing medications safely to meet life’s changes

What medications were good then might not be the best choice now. Deprescribing is the planned process of reducing or stopping medications that may no longer be of benefit or may be causing harm. The goal is to reduce medication burden or harm while improving quality of life.

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Patients

Learn about deprescribing and check out resources to help you discuss deprescribing with your health care provider.

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Health Care Providers

Get comfortable deprescribing with tools and resources, case reports and testimonials, and relevant publications.

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As the population ages, older Canadians are living with multiple chronic conditions. In 2016, 35% of community-dwelling seniors had chronic use of 5 or more different drug classes.

Canadian Institute for Health Information. Drug use among seniors 2016.

Inappropriate prescriptions are known to pose health risks for older adults, leading to unnecessary hospitalisations and undue cost.

Budnitz DS, Lovegrove MC, Shehab N, Richards CL. Emergency hospitalizations for adverse drug events in older Americans. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2011;365(21):2002-12

“It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly; but it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether omit them.”

Philippe Pinel 1745-1826

What’s happening?

Guest blog #1- MedSafer: Working Towards Safer Prescribing

26/02/ 2020

Welcome to the deprescribing.org blog’s first guest blog post. Today we have Dr. Emily McDonald from McGill University telling us about her team’s exciting new tool, MedSafer. Enjoy! MedSafer: Working Towards Safer Prescribing By Emily G. McDonald If you’re reading...

Interview #1: Hearing more about the US Deprescribing Network

10/02/ 2020

Another week, another blog post! Back in November, The US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN) was launched. This network joins the growing list of existing networks, including the Canadian Deprescribing Network (CaDeN), the Australian Deprescribing Network (ADeN),...

Literature roundup #1

03/02/ 2020

Welcome to the deprescribing.org blog’s first literature roundup. For these pieces, we’ll be taking a closer look at recently published studies on deprescribing. Here we go! STOPPFrail (we love it when tools are tested in clinical practice) Many of us likely saw the...

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