Older adults' attitudes towards deprescribing and medication changes: a longitudinal sub-study of a cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the association between older patients' willingness to have one or more medications deprescribed and: (1) change in medications, (2) change in the appropriateness of medications and (3) implementation of prescribing recommendations generated by the electronic decision support system tested in the 'Optimising PharmacoTherapy In the Multimorbid Elderly in Primary CAre' (OPTICA) trial.

Design

A longitudinal sub-study of the OPTICA trial, a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Swiss primary care settings.

Participants

Participants were aged ≥65 years, with ≥3 chronic conditions and ≥5 regular medications recruited from 43 general practitioner (GP) practices.

Exposures

Patients' willingness to have medications deprescribed was

SUBMITTER: Jungo KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10806786 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature