What Should I Know About Medication Deprescribing?

Peter E Wu; Todd C Lee; Emily G McDonald

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.2099

What Should I Know About Medication Deprescribing?

JAMA Intern Med. 2023 Aug 1;183(8):891. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.2099.

Authors

Peter E Wu¹, Todd C Lee², Emily G McDonald³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

PMID: 37273220
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.2099

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This JAMA Internal Medicine Patient Page describes the process of slowly and carefully cutting down on unnecessary medications with the guidance of a health care professional.

MeSH terms

Deprescriptions*
Humans
Inappropriate Prescribing / prevention & control
Polypharmacy
Potentially Inappropriate Medication List