Enhancing deprescribing: A qualitative understanding of the complexities of pharmacist-led deprescribing in care homes.

ABSTRACT: The English National Overprescribing Review identified that older people often take eight or more medicines a day. The report recommended pharmacists in primary care should take responsibility for addressing polypharmacy. Overprescribing is a safety concern in care homes as approximately half of older care home residents are prescribed at least one medicine that is unnecessary or now harmful. This predisposes them to adverse outcomes including hospitalisation and mortality. Deprescribing is the planned activity of stopping or reducing a medicine that may no longer be appropriate. Deprescribing, when performed by a pharmacist, is a multidisciplinary activity requiring close communication with general practitioners (GPs) and care home staff. A recently completed trial that integrated pharmac

SUBMITTER: Birt L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100492 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature