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ReviewExpert review of clinical pharmacology2020

A systems approach to identifying the challenges of implementing deprescribing in older adults across different health-care settings and countries: a narrative review.

Mouna Sawan, Emily Reeve, Justin Turner, Adam Todd, Michael A Steinman, Mirko Petrovic, Danijela Gnjidic

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In one paragraph

Review in Expert review of clinical pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
8.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.

Mouna SawanSydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0565-3524
Emily ReeveQuality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Justin TurnerFaculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
Adam ToddSchool of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Michael A SteinmanDivision of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Mirko PetrovicSection of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Danijela GnjidicSydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia.
The University of Sydney · AUDalhousie University · CAGhent University Hospital · BENewcastle University · GBSan Francisco VA Medical Center · USUniversité de Montréal · CA

Funding

U.S. Deprescribing Research NetworkR24AG064025 · NIA · NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE/RES/EDU · PI BOYD, CYNTHIA MELINDA, STEINMAN, MICHAEL A. · 2019 to 2023
$9.9M
Prescribing cascades in older adults with and without dementiaK24AG049057 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI STEINMAN, MICHAEL A. · 2015 to 2025
$1.8M
NIA NIH HHS K24 AG049057NIA NIH HHS R24 AG064025
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

DeprescriptionsAgedDelivery of Health CareHealth PolicyHumansInappropriate PrescribingPolypharmacyPractice Patterns, Physicians'Systems AnalysisDeprescribingdeprescribing in practicemedication withdrawalolder adultspoliciespolypharmacy

Identifiers

PMID32056451
PMCPMC7309419
OpenAlexW3005838166

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.