Use of preventive medication and supplements in general practice in patients in their last year of life: a Retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several preventive medications and supplements become inappropriate in the last phase of life due to increased risk of adverse events caused by changed pharmacokinetics, drug-drug interactions, and changed care goals. Information on these preventive medication and supplements use in patients with a life-limiting illness in the home-care setting is limited. The primary aim of this study was to assess the use of four different groups of preventive drugs and supplements, which are inappropriate in adult patients with a life-limiting illness, living at home in the last year of life. The secondary aims were to assess reasons for discontinuing these drugs as documented in the general practitioners' patient file and whether these reasons affected the time between medication dis

SUBMITTER: Antonisse A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10105458 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature