ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2017
Older Adults' Awareness of Deprescribing: A Population-Based Survey.
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- Australian Polypharmacy Trends Between 2013 and 2024: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in the Adult Population.Drugs & aging · 2026Article
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- Central nervous system medication use around hospitalization.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- Strategies to guide the successful implementation of deprescribing in community practice: Lessons learned from the front line.Canadian pharmacists journal : CPJ = Revue des pharmaciens du Canada : RPC · 2024Article
- International Trends in Adverse Drug Event-Related Mortality from 2001 to 2019: An Analysis of the World Health Organization Mortality Database from 54 Countries.Drug safety · 2024Observational
- The Attitudes Toward Polypharmacy and Willingness to Deprescribe Among Patients with Multimorbidity in Rural Areas of Shandong Province in China: A Cross-Sectional Study.Patient preference and adherence · 2024Article
- Weighing the necessities and concerns of deprescribing among older ambulatory patients and primary care trainees: a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2023Article
- Psychotropic medication deprescribing in residential aged care facilities: An exploratory study of the knowledge and attitudes of family members of residents with dementia.Australasian journal on ageing · 2022Article
- Attitudes and beliefs of older adults and caregivers towards deprescribing in French-speaking countries: a multicenter cross-sectional study.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2022Article
- Attitudes Toward Deprescribing in Older Adults and Caregivers: A Survey in Quebec, Canada.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2022Article
- Older Patient and Surrogate Attitudes Toward Deprescribing During the Transition From Acute to Post-Acute Care.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2022Article
- Challenges and Successes of Global Deprescribing Networks: A Qualitative Key Informant Study.Journal of gerontological nursing · 2022Article
- Patient values and preferences on polypharmacy and deprescribing: a scoping review.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2021Article
- Patient and Physician Perspectives of Deprescribing Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Older Adults with a History of Falls: a Qualitative Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Article
- One-year persistence of potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults: A population-based study.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2020Article
- Older Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Medication Value and Deprescribing: A Qualitative Study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020Article
- A systems approach to identifying the challenges of implementing deprescribing in older adults across different health-care settings and countries: a narrative review.Expert review of clinical pharmacology · 2020Review
- The Prevalence of Selected Potential Drug-Drug Interactions of Analgesic Drugs and Possible Methods of Preventing Them: Lessons Learned From the Analysis of the Real-World National Database of 38 Million Citizens of Poland.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2020Article
- Approaches to Risk Assessment Among Older Patients With Diabetes.Current diabetes reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine older adults' awareness of the concept of medication-induced harm and their familiarity with the term "deprescribing." Secondary objectives were to ascertain determinants of self-initiated deprescribing conversations and to identify how older adults seek information on medication harms.
designCross-sectional population-based household telephone survey using random-digit dialling.
settingCanada.
participantsCommunity-dwelling adults aged 65 and older (N = 2,665; n = 898 men, n = 1,767 women, mean age 74.9 ± 7.2, range 65-100). MEASUREMENTS: Information was gathered on age; sex; awareness of the term "deprescribing"; knowledge and information-seeking behaviors related to medication harms; and previous initiation of a deprescribing conversation with a healthcare professional. Three targeted classes of potentially inappropriate prescriptions were asked about: sedative-hypnotics, glyburide, and proton pump inhibitors. Descriptive statistics and regression analyses were used to quantify associations.
resultsTwo-thirds (65.2%, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 63.4-67.0%) of participants were familiar with the concept of medication-induced harms. Only 6.9% (95% CI = 5.9-7.8%) recognized the term deprescribing; 48% (95% CI = 46-50%) had researched medication-related harms. Older adults most commonly sought information from the Internet (35.5%, 95% CI = 33.4-37.6%), and from health care professionals (32.2%, 95% CI = 30.1-34.3%). Patient-initiated deprescribing conversations were associated with awareness of medication harms (odds ratio (OR) = 1.74, 95% CI = 1.46-2.07), familiarity with the term deprescribing (OR = 1.55, 95% CI = 1.13-2.12), and information-seeking behaviors (OR = 4.57, 95% CI = 3.84-5.45), independent of age and sex.
conclusionHealthcare providers can facilitate patient-initiated deprescribing conversations by providing information on medication harms and using the term "deprescribing."
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