Factors Important to Older Adults Who Disagree With a Deprescribing Recommendation.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Little is known about why older adults decline deprescribing recommendations, primarily because interventional studies rarely capture the reasons.

Objective

To examine factors important to older adults who disagree with a deprescribing recommendation given by a primary care physician to a hypothetical patient experiencing polypharmacy.

Design, setting, and participants

This online, vignette-based survey study was conducted from December 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021, with participants 65 years or older in the United Kingdom, the US, Australia, and the Netherlands. The primary outcome of the main study was disagreement with a deprescribing recommendation. A content analysis was subsequently conducted of the free-text reasons provided by participants who strongl

SUBMITTER: Weir KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10568363 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature