Barriers and facilitators of successful deprescribing as described by older patients living with frailty, their informal carers and clinicians: a qualitative interview study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the barriers/facilitators to deprescribing in primary care in England from the perspectives of clinicians, patients living with frailty who reside at home, and their informal carers, drawing on the Theoretical Domains Framework to identify behavioural components associated with barriers/facilitators of the process.

Design

Exploratory qualitative study.

Setting

General practice (primary care) in England.

Participants

9 patients aged 65+ living with frailty who attended a consultation to reduce or stop a medicine/s. 3 informal carers of patients living with frailty. 14 primary care clinicians including general practitioners, practice pharmacists and advanced nurse practitioners.

Methods

Qualitative semistructured interviews took place

SUBMITTER: Peat G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8961139 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature