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Welcome to the first and best deprescribing blog on the internet, hosted by pharmacists and deprescribing researchers Carina Lundby and Wade Thompson. We hope to be your new best deprescribing friends and regularly supply you with deprescribing content and analysis. We have lots of interviews and blog posts you can catch up on, and we look forward to posting more soon! Please reach out to us if you have any questions or comments or would like to contribute (carina.lundby.olesen@rsyd.dk, wade.thompson@ubc.ca).

10 important deprescribing articles you should probably know about

Greetings, deprescribers! Today we come to you with a special literature blog post highlighting 10 key deprescribing articles that together provide an overview of the field of deprescribing – covering the mindset of deprescribing, the complexity of and challenges...

Guest Blog Post #14: Deprescribing in community pharmacy

Hello, deprescribing world! Today we have another blog post for you. This one is from pharmacist Amy Randhawa from Ontario, Canada. Over the past 10 years, Amy has been working as a community pharmacist. From October 2020 to January 2021, Amy worked with Dr. Barbara...

Guest Blog Post #13: Can we STOPPFalls?

Today we have Dr. Nathalie van der Velde, Professor in Geriatrics at Amsterdam University Medical Centers (the Netherlands), telling about the development of STOPPFalls, part of the STOPP/START series, and the implications of this new tool. Take it away, Nathalie!...

Interview #6: Hospital admission as an opportunity for deprescribing?

Recently the Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (CJHP) published an article where the question “Should hospital admission be used as an opportunity for deprescribing in older adults?” was fiercely debated. Today we interview two hospital pharmacists, Pam Howell...

Interview #5: Deprescribing in telemedicine

Hello, deprescribers! Today we are excited to have another interview post with clinical pharmacist Pam Howell (Ontario, Canada), telling us about her (deprescribing) experiences working as part of the telemedicine initiative GeriMedRisk.     Q: You are part...

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