Deprescribing in Geriatric Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities

Drug safety, polypharmacy, and deprescribing are important issues in post-acute and long-term care medicine and therefore also of great interest to JAMDA's editors and readers. This issue of JAMDA features a number of articles that advance the discussion of these topics. Two articles document and describe prescribing behavior —one on the challenges clinicians face determining whether and, if so, when antipsychotics are appropriate to prescribe1; the other on the subjective nature of opioid prescribing decisions.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research