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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).
Interview #8: Empowering patients and caregivers to participate in medication conversations
Hello, deprescribers! It has been some time since our last interview. Today we have a new one where we discuss a project called “Talking About Medications”. This is a workshop delivered by pharmacists that seeks to empower patients and their caregivers to participate...
Interview #7: Prescribing cascades and the implications for deprescribing
Hello, deprescribers! We are back again after a quiet few months with some more blog content. Today we are talking about prescribing cascades with Dr. Sameera Toenjes from University of Toronto (Canada). We hope that after this interview you will have “can this...
Interview #6: Deprescribing experiences from a nurse in long-term care and palliative care
Hello deprescribers! Today we have an interview with Ana Amaral, a nurse and researcher from Portugal. We asked her about her experience as a nurse working in long-term care and palliative care and about her Master’s work related to the role of nurses in deprescribing...
Guest Blog Post #16: Optimizing Medication Use in Older Adults with Multimorbidity and Polypharmacy in the Primary Care Setting
Hello, deprescribers. Today we have Dr. Katharina Jungo (University of Bern, Switzerland) summarizing key findings from her recent PhD dissertation that explored ways to optimize medication use in older people with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. Take it away,...
Guest Blog Post #15: Patient and Public Involvement in Deprescribing Research
Hello, deprescribing world! Today we have four people involved in the CHARMER Research Programme – Katherine Murphy (Patient and Public Involvement and Media Lead), Doreen Pegg (Patient and Public Involvement Member), David Wright (Professor of Pharmacy...
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...