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
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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.
Inappropriate prescriptions are known to pose health risks for older adults, leading to unnecessary hospitalisations and undue cost.
“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.”
What’s happening?
Guest Blog Post #2: 2019 Australian Deprescribing Network (ADeN) Annual Meeting
Hi everyone, welcome to our second guest blog post. Today we will have Drs. Emily Reeve and Danijela Gnjidic telling us about the annual meeting of the Australian Deprescribing Network. 2019 Australian Deprescribing Network (ADeN) Annual Meeting By: Dr. Emily Reeve...
Guest blog #1- MedSafer: Working Towards Safer Prescribing
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
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),...
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