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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).
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...
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...