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Welcome to the first and best (well, the only) deprescribing blog on the internet, hosted by pharmacists and postdoctoral researchers, Carina Lundby and Wade Thompson. We hope to be your new best deprescribing friends and supply you with deprescribing content and analysis on a monthly 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 #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...
Interview #4: Development of a Dutch deprescribing guideline
Hello, deprescribers! Today we have another interview blog post with Dr. Petra Denig, Professor at the University of Groningen, telling us about the development of deprescribing recommendations for the Dutch multidisciplinary guideline on polypharmacy in older people....
Interview #3: Deprescribing experiences from a virtual pharmacology outpatient clinic in Denmark
Hello, deprescribers! Today we have another interview blog post with Daniel Pilsgaard Henriksen, Clinical Pharmacologist at Odense University Hospital and Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark, telling about his experiences with deprescribing in a...
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...