How "age-friendly" are deprescribing interventions? A scoping review of deprescribing trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess how age-friendly deprescribing trials are regarding intervention design and outcome assessment. Reduced use of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) can be addressed by deprescribing-a systematic process of discontinuing and/or reducing the use of PIMs. The 4Ms-"Medication", "Mentation", "Mobility", and "What Matters Most" to the person-can be used to guide assessment of age-friendliness of deprescribing trials.

Data source

Published literature.

Study design

Scoping review.

Data extraction methods

The literature was identified using keywords related to deprescribing and polypharmacy in PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, ProQuest, CINAHL, and Cochrane and snowballing. Study characteristics were extracted and evaluated for consideration of

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12278799 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature