Patient Education and Pharmacist Consultation Influence on Nonbenzodiazepine Sedative Medication Deprescribing Success for Older Adults.

CONCLUSION: Patients who received direct-to-patient education with or without a pharmacist consultation were significantly more likely to discontinue Z-drug use than patients receiving UC. Providing evidence-based information about Z-drug use is an effective and low-resource method to encourage drug discontinuation. PMID: 30624198 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Permanente journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: Perm J Source Type: research