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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 Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network (CADeN), the Australian...
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...
Dr. Barbara Farrell, has been awarded the 2019 CIHR Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Translation in Aging
Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Farrell, who has been awarded the 2019 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Translation in Aging! The Betty Havens Prize is awarded to researchers for their outstanding achievements in...