Professional roles of general practitioners, community pharmacists and specialist providers in collaborative medication deprescribing - a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Collaborative care approaches between general practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists have received international recognition for medication optimization and deprescribing efforts. Although specialist providers have been shown to influence deprescribing, their profession so far remains omitted from collaborative care approaches for medication optimization. Similarly, while explorative studies on role perception and collaboration between GPs and pharmacists grow, interaction with specialists for medication optimization is neglected. Our qualitative study therefore aims to explore GPs', community pharmacists' and specialist providers' role perceptions of deprescribing, and to identify interpersonal as well as structural factors that may influence collaborative medication optim

SUBMITTER: Gerlach N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7487755 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature