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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 #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...
Literature Roundup #2 – Do health professional students know about deprescribing?
Welcome to our next literature roundup. We apologize that things have been a bit slow around here, but they will be picking them up again starting…now. Do health professional students know about deprescribing? Here is a simple and very important question: do pharmacy...
Starting to stop: The birth of a deprescribing research portfolio at Hospital Pharmacy Funen, Denmark
By Carina Lundby, Wade Thompson and Anton Pottegård In the Research Unit at Hospital Pharmacy Funen, Odense University Hospital, Denmark, deprescribing constitutes our main research area. Although we are a small group of researchers, we have worked with deprescribing...
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),...
Literature roundup #1
Welcome to the deprescribing.org blog’s first literature roundup. For these pieces, we’ll be taking a closer look at recently published studies on deprescribing. Here we go! STOPPFrail (we love it when tools are tested in clinical practice) Many of us likely saw the...
A deprescribing blog?
Welcome to the first, the best, (well, the only) deprescribing blog on the internet! We hope to be your new best deprescribing friends and supply you with a steady stream of deprescribing content and analysis. The deprescribing mindset has long existed on the fringes...