Healthcare professionals' knowledge, attitudes and practices toward deprescribing: a protocol of cross-sectional study (Desmedica Study-Brazil).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Deprescribing is the planned and supervised process of dose reduction or stopping of medication that might be causing harm, or no longer be of benefit. It is an activity that should be a normal part of care/the prescribing cycle. Although now broadly recognised, there are still challenges in its effective implementation.

Objectives

To develop and validate an instrument to measure Brazilian healthcare professionals' knowledge, attitudes and practices towards deprescribing.

Methods

This study will include the following steps: (1) development of the preliminary instrument; (2) content validation; (3) pilot study; (4) evaluation of psychometric characteristics. After the elaboration of items of the instrument through the literature review, we will use a hybrid

SUBMITTER: Motter FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8330586 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature