Barriers and facilitators to deprescribing inappropriate medicines in long-term care facilities

• In: D25 What’s new in industry & science? Part 2 on Thursday, 6 September 2018, 11:20 -11:30
• At: Glasgow (Scotland) (2018)
• Type: Presentation
• By: BOLTON, Emma (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
• Co-author(s): Emma Bolton
  Claire Easthall
  Karen Spilsbury
  David Alldred:
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  Millions of older people globally live in long-term care and inappropriate polypharmacy is prevalent in this context which can lead to adverse drug events, hospital admissions and poorer quality of life.^1,2  Reducing inappropriate prescribing is an international priority and deprescribing (the cessation of inappropriate medicines) is a

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