Nursing home team-care deprescribing study: a stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

An ageing population has become an urgent concern for Asia in recent times. In nursing homes, polypharmacy has also become a compounding issue. Deprescribing practice is an evidence-based strategy to provide a better outcome in this group of patients; however, its implementation in nursing homes is often challenging, and prospective outcome data on deprescribing practice in the elderly is lacking. Our study assesses the implementation of team-care deprescribing to understand the benefits of this practice in geriatric setting and to explore the factors affecting deprescribing practice.

Methods and analysis

This multicentre prospective study consists of a prestudy interview questionnaire, and a preintervention and postintervention study to be conducted in the nurs

SUBMITTER: Kua CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623346 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature