TOP-ID: a Delphi technique-guided development of a prescription and deprescription tool for adults with intellectual disabilities.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Adults with an intellectual disability (AWID) are often polymedicated because of somatic and psychiatric health problems. Besides, they may display challenging behaviours, leading to off-label prescription of psychotropic drugs, without efficacy and with numerous adverse effects. In this context, a prescription/deprescription tool (Tool for Optimising Prescription in Intellectual Disability/TOP-ID) was developed to improve the care of AWID. This paper describes how TOP-ID was designed.

Design

Four-step consensus-based process involving a review of the literature, eight semistructured interviews and a two-round Delphi process.

Setting

Seventeen general practices and university and general hospitals from Belgium, France and Switzerland.

Participants

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SUBMITTER: Lonchampt S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7643515 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature