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How general practitioners would deprescribe in frail oldest-old with polypharmacy — the LESS study

BACKGROUND: Many oldest-old (> 80-years) with multimorbidity and polypharmacy are at high risk of inappropriate use of medication, but we know little about whether and how GPs would deprescribe, especially in the frail oldest-old. We aimed to determine whether, how, and why Swiss GPs deprescribe...

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Autores principales: Mantelli, Sophie, Jungo, Katharina Tabea, Rozsnyai, Zsofia, Reeve, Emily, Luymes, Clare H., Poortvliet, Rosalinde K. E., Chiolero, Arnaud, Rodondi, Nicolas, Gussekloo, Jacobijn, Streit, Sven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6186124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30314468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-018-0856-9