The deprescribing rainbow: a conceptual framework highlighting the importance of patient context when stopping medication in older people.

ABSTRACT: The area of "deprescribing" has rapidly expanded in recent years as a positive intervention to reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and improve health outcomes for (older) people with multimorbidity. While our understanding of deprescribing as a process has greatly improved and existing approaches all have patient-centered elements, there is still limited literature exploring the importance of the individual patient context in deprescribing decision-making. This is clearly an important consideration to ensure that any deprescribing approach is ethical, respectful, and successful. To address this gap in the literature, we have developed a conceptual framework in the form of a rainbow - with five different deprescribing determinants - and place the person at the center of the deprescribing proc

SUBMITTER: Todd A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6267905 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature