What do clinical practice guidelines say about deprescribing? A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Deprescribing (medication dose reduction or cessation) is an integral component of appropriate prescribing. The extent to which deprescribing recommendations are included in clinical practice guidelines is unclear. This scoping review aimed to identify guidelines that contain deprescribing recommendations, qualitatively explore the content and format of deprescribing recommendations and estimate the proportion of guidelines that contain deprescribing recommendations.

Methods

Bibliographic databases and Google were searched for guidelines published in English from January 2012 to November 2022. Guideline registries were searched from January 2017 to February 2023. Two reviewers independently screened records from databases and Google for guidelines contain

SUBMITTER: Langford AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11672013 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature