A Multi-Method Approach to Exploring Prescribing Cascades
Prescribing cascades occur when a drug is used to treat the side effect of another drug. We are studying how and why prescribing cascades start and continue, their impact on people, and how they can be prevented or reversed. Our research began with two series of...
Deprescribing Initiatives Using Community Engagement (DICE) and Education (DICEE)
Deprescribing Initiatives Using Community Engagement (DICE) and Education (DICEE) The Deprescribing Initiatives Using Community Engagement (DICE) project explored how public and healthcare professional community engagement strategies can be used to implement...
Fostering collective impact across Newfoundland and Labrador
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador has some of the highest use of potentially harmful medications in seniors compared to the rest of Canada. In collaboration with the Department of Health and Community Services and their Appropriateness of Care Initiative, this...
Deprescribing guidelines – Tools for implementation
Deprescribing can be challenging. The Bruyère and Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network’s “Deprescribing Guidelines for the Elderly” project developed guidelines and decision-support tools in the form of algorithms. New knowledge translation tools supported by this grant...
Mobilizing community pharmacists as catalysts for deprescribing
Deprescribing can minimize harm associated with polypharmacy. Community pharmacists can play a role; this project explored capacity to integrate deprescribing into their workflow and to facilitate communication with patients and prescribers. We worked with four...
Creating Evidence-based Deprescribing Guidelines
Prescribers have said that it’s difficult to stop medications when prescribing guidelines only talk about starting them. The “Deprescribing Guidelines for the Elderly” project developed evidence-based deprescribing guidelines to support clinicians in safely reducing...