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What Are Priorities for Deprescribing for Elderly Patients? Capturing the Voice of Practitioners: A Modified Delphi Process

Polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use among older adults contribute to adverse drug reactions, falls, cognitive impairment, noncompliance, hospitalization and mortality. While deprescribing - tapering, reducing or stopping a medication - is feasible and relatively safe, clinicians find it di...

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Autores principales: Farrell, Barbara, Tsang, Corey, Raman-Wilms, Lalitha, Irving, Hannah, Conklin, James, Pottie, Kevin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4388504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25849568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122246