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Welcome to the first and best (well, the only) deprescribing blog on the internet, hosted by pharmacists and PhD students, Carina Lundby and Wade Thompson. We hope to be your new best deprescribing friends and supply you with deprescribing content and analysis on a biweekly basis. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or comments, or would like to contribute (carina.lundby.olesen@rsyd.dk, wthompson@health.sdu.dk).
Guest Blog Post #12: Protecting the human right to try: Evidence-based deprescription of antipsychotic medication
Hello, deprescribing world. Today we have Dr. Helene Speyer, MD, Ph.D. at Mental Health Center Copenhagen (Denmark), telling us about an ongoing project on deprescribing of antipsychotics. Take it away, Helene! “When can I get off this medication?” Most people taking...
Guest Blog Post #11: Deprescribing experiences from a primary care pharmacist
Welcome to another guest blog post. Today we have Cynthia Leung, pharmacist at the Queen’s Family Health Team (in Kingston, Canada) and the person behind the blog DRUGOPINIONS, sharing her experiences with deprescribing as practicing pharmacist in primary care,...
Nursing Home Residents as a Priority Population for Deprescribing
Welcome to our 10th guest blog post. Today Dr. Joshua Niznik of the University of North Carolina will tell us about his work on overtreatment and deprescribing in nursing home residents in the US. Take it away! Nursing Home Residents are a Priority Population for...
Interview #2: Challenges related to deprescribing and conducting (deprescribing) research among care home residents
Hello, deprescribing world! It has been some time since our first interview blog post, so here is a new one: Today we have Dr. Karen Andersen-Ranberg, Consultant Geriatrician at Odense University Hospital and Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of...
Guest Blog Post #9: Deprescribing for healthcare students: What do they need to know?
Hello, depriscribers, welcome to another guest blog post! Today we have Dr. Sion Scott from the University of East Anglia (UK) following up with thoughts on the recent blog post regarding healthcare students’ knowledge about deprescribing. Teaching deprescribing A...
Guest Blog Post #8: Facilitating shared decision-making about deprescribing: The perspective of patients, pharmacists and GPs
Hello deprescribers, welcome to our 8th guest blog post. Today we have Dr. Kristie Weir from the University of Sydney summarizing key findings from her recent Ph.D. dissertation that explored preferences around communication and decision-making in deprescribing....
Guest Blog Post #7: To deprescribe or not to deprescribe: Considerations in older adults with polypharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic
Welcome to our 7th guest blog post. Today, we have Dr. Nagham J. Ailabouni from the University of South Australia writing about deprescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Take it away! COVID-19 and older adults The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected...
Guest Blog Post #6: DeprescrIPP: Deprescribing proton pump inhibitors in primary care
Hello deprescribing world! Today we have another guest blog post by Dr. Jean-Pascal Fournier and Dr. Jerome Nguyen from Nantes University in France. Today, they will tell us about a deprescribing study they are currently working on. DeprescrIPP The department of...
Guest Blog Post #5: Deprescribing, Polypharmacy and Aging from an Anthropological Perspective
Hi everyone, this week we will have another guest blog post. Today we have Dr. Sofie Rosenlund Lau (MScPharm, PhD in medical anthropology) discussing how anthropology and ethnography can be used in deprescribing research and to facilitate deprescribing in clinical...
Guest Blog Post #4: Meaningful Measurement Matters!
Hi everyone, welcome to our fourth guest blog post. Today we will have Dr. Ashley Martinez (PharmD, PhD) from the University of Kentucky summarizing her recent PhD dissertation – and discussing medication appropriateness measurement tools to meaningfully identify...