Patients' Attitudes Towards Deprescribing Differ Across Specific Cardiovascular and Diabetes Medication: A Survey Study Assessing Within-Patient Differences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Knowing whether patients' attitudes towards deprescribing differ by medication is important for implementing deprescribing in practice.

Objective

To assess whether there are within-patient differences in attitudes towards deprescribing the following cardiovascular and diabetes medications: statins, antihypertensives, sulfonylureas and insulins.

Methods

We administered the revised Patient Attitudes Towards Deprescribing questionnaire to Dutch primary care patients. The 'appropriateness' and 'concerns' factors were adapted to measure medication-specific attitudes. Pairwise comparisons of appropriateness and concerns factor scores were tested with Wilcoxon signed-rank tests and corrected to control the false discovery rate.

Results

Responses from 160 pa

SUBMITTER: Stuijt PJC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12617390 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature