Development and Validation of the Perceptions, Attitudes, and Challenges of Physicians Towards Deprescribing (PACPD-12) Questionnaire

An ideal holistic health care model, where an apt, cost-effective and well-timed medicine is available and the patient is fittingly counseled on his or her medications, is still a fantasy to most of the common people in a developing country. Factors like inappropriate medication use, polypharmacy, intentional and nonintentional nonadherence to medications, high drug costs, present barriers to ideal patient care.1 –4 The complex process of deprescribing is gaining merit as one of the tools that can reduce the incidence of the previously mentioned issues.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - August 30, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Doorva Bhuvanendra Bhat, Ganesan Rajalekshmi Saraswathy, Kumari Sweta Tags: Research Letter Source Type: research