The deprescribing rainbow: a conceptual framework highlighting the importance of patient context when stopping medication in older people
Abstract The area of “deprescribing” has rapidly expanded in recent years as a positive intervention to reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and improve health outcomes for (older) people with multimorbidity. While our understanding of deprescribing as a process has greatly improved and existing approa...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-11-01
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Series: | BMC Geriatrics |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12877-018-0978-x |