Too much medicine in older people? Deprescribing through shared decision making

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 353, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Jansen, Jesse ^a,b   Naganathan, Vasi ^b   Carter, Stacy M ^b   McLachlan, Andrew J ^b   Nickel, Brooke ^a,b   Irwig, Les ^a   Bonner, Carissa ^a,b   Doust, Jenny ^c   Colvin, Jim ^d   Heaney, Aine ^e   Turner, Robin ^f   McCaffery, Kirsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Health Consumers New South Wales   (Australia)

^e NPS MedicineWise   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO CHANGE; AWARENESS; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; COGNITIVE BIAS; COMPREHENSION; CONFUSION (UNCERTAINTY); DEPRESCRIPTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG INFORMATION; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; POLYPHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHARED DECISION MAKING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TREATMENT PLANNING; TRUST; AGED; DECISION MAKING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY;

AGED; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESCRIPTIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; POLYPHARMACY;

EID: 84973448950     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i2893     Document Type: Article

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