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.
Be part of the change for a better quality of life
Patients
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Health Care Providers
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Researchers
Find out about ongoing research at Bruyère Research Institute and the University of Montreal and join the conversation to share your own research.
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 1745-1826What’s happening?
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and memantine deprescribing guideline
Using the evidence-based deprescribing guideline method established through the Bruyère Research Institute and the Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network, Dr. Reeve developed an Australian/Canadian focused prescribing guideline for acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and...
Building Capacity for Deprescribing Guideline Development, Implementation, and Evaluation
This knowledge mobilization grant supported a variety of strategies designed to help health care providers and members of the public use deprescribing guidelines effectively. These included whiteboard training videos, mobile apps, webinars, a wide-reaching social...
Evaluation of a Deprescribing Guideline Mobile Application
The four evidence-based deprescribing guidelines and algorithms produced through the leadership of the Bruyère Research Institute and the Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network, and the guideline developed through an NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Fellowship have been built...
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