ICYMI - #Deprescribing webinar recording! 😍

When making decisions about 🛑 #statins, consider:

✅ Patient values, preferences
✅ Health status
✅ Current evidence

Watch as the TI's Dr. Wade Thompson summarizes current evidence: tiny.cc/StatinDepres...

#MedEd #ptsafety #medsafety

Reasons Behind Continuity of In-Hospital Deprescribing Post Discharge: A Qualitative Study Deprescribing reduces inappropriate polypharmacy in older adults and may be initiated in hospital. However, deprescribing changes initiated during a hospital admission are not always continued post…

#Deprescribing interventions are often initiated in the hospital setting. 🏥

Unfortunately, interventions are not always continued after hospital discharge.

A qualitative study investigates key factors impacting successful deprescribing:
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‼️We need to talk about #Tramadol 💊

ICYMI: Our #BestEvidence webinar recording featuring the TI's Dr. Jessica Otte

Practical info for clinicians considering tramadol for pain: bit.ly/3onIs05

👉More here: ti.ubc.ca/letter131

#MedEd #deprescribing #pain

🚨 ICYMI - #Opioids prescribing webinar recording featuring pharmacologist Dr. David Juurlink

💊 What have we learned about #prescribing?
💊 How should we treat pain when opioids overdoses have become an intractable epidemic?
👉🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr46...

#pain #MedEd #medsafety #deprescribing

A systematic review & meta-analysis compiled evidence from 15 studies investigating the effects of #deprescribing preventive medications among older adults with advanced frailty, dementia, or limited life expectancy.

Read the full open-access article to learn more:
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🚨ICYMI: CLINICAL PEARLS 👩‍🏫

👉 3 Pearls for #PeripheralEdema from the TI's Dr. Jessica Otte @drotte.medsky.social

#prescribing #deprescribing #edema #MedEd

ICYMI: #Deprescribing webinar recording! 😍

When making decisions about 🛑 #statins, consider:

✅ patient values, preferences
✅ health status
✅ current evidence

Watch as the TI's Dr. Wade Thompson summarizes current evidence:

#MedEd #ptsafety #medsafety

‼️We need to talk about #Tramadol 💊

ICYMI: Our #BestEvidence webinar recording featuring the TI's Dr. Jessica Otte

Practical info for clinicians considering tramadol for pain: bit.ly/3onIs05

👉 More here: ti.ubc.ca/letter131

#MedEd #deprescribing #pain

Reasons Behind Continuity of In-Hospital Deprescribing Post Discharge: A Qualitative Study Deprescribing reduces inappropriate polypharmacy in older adults and may be initiated in hospital. However, deprescribing changes initiated during a hospital admission are not always continued post di...

Reasons Behind Continuity of In-Hospital #Deprescribing Post Discharge

1. Acceptance of deprescribing by patients and usual #care providers
2. Comprehension of the deprescribing plan
3. Supportive post-discharge environment

#Geriatrics #Health #Hospital #MedSky

www.jamda.com/article/S152...

A bloated med list is not a badge of clinical sophistication.
Sometimes the best psychopharmacology move is not what you add.
It is what you safely take away.
#Psychiatry #Deprescribing #PsychMeds #MentalHealth #psychiatrist #depression #anxiety

The Prevalence of Central Nervous System-Active Polypharmacy in US Nursing Homes The American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria strongly recommend that older adults avoid the concurrent use of ≥3 central nervous system-active (CNS) medications because of the increased risk of fall...

The Prevalence of Central Nervous System-Active #Polypharmacy in #NursingHomes

- Highly prevalent, esp among residents with psychiatric comorbidity and in #pain
- Need for #deprescribing strategies and nonpharmacologic interventions

#Geriatrics #LTC #Care #MedSky

www.jamda.com/article/S152...

Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms - Deprescribing.org The evidence-based guidelines and algorithms developed by the deprescribing.org team and its collaborators are products of quality research and real-world application.

#Deprescribing, when done with the guidance of a healthcare professional is a great way to lower the risk of toxic exposures to medications.

Learn more about deprescribing and find helpful resources at:
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🚨 UBC TI #Deprescribing webinar (May 6th)

"Optimizing Medications for Patients with Major Polypharmacy and Multiple Morbidities: Evidence and How to Apply It"

Speaker: Dr. Anne Holbrook

👉 REGISTER NOW: ti.ubc.ca/deprescribin...

#MedEd #CME #polypharmacy #BetterPrescribing

Learn how to use MedSafer - A new free tool to support safer #deprescribing, by watching their new whiteboard video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz6j...

Access the MedSafer tool here:
public.medsafer.org/public/reports

The tool was created with support from Health Canada 🇨🇦

Deprescribing Guidelines Repository (DEPOT) - Deprescribing.org A resource for guideline developers to share their guidelines and for guideline users to access deprescribing guidance. This public-facing central repository is a place where deprescribing guideline…

Delirium can be caused by many different triggers such as: Infections, Surgery, Dehydration, Pain, and Medication Changes.

Find helpful #deprescribing guidelines for many common medication triggers for delirium on our Deprescribing Guidelines Repository (DEPOT):
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On service today, and seeing patients for new symptoms, and I am immediately saying "it's the meds", and can look at the med list and identify "it's those meds, time to stop them". This is what that extra year of #Geriatrics fellowship does. #deprescribing #Polypharmacy

Wenn meine Patienten aus dem KH oder vom Spezialisten kommen hat sich die Zahl ihrer Medis derzeit häufig verdoppelt.

Kein Wunder dass das System nicht mehr zu bezahlen ist.

Bekommt ihr eigentlich Geld dafür?
#deprescribing

🚨ICYMI - Updated Cochrane #SystematicReview:

Withdrawal of antihypertensive drugs in older people 💊
doi.org/10.1002/1465...

"Future research should focus on populations with the greatest uncertainty of the benefit:risk ratio"

#CochraneEvidence #bloodpressure #deprescribing

This is a great idea! MOSCE featuring #deprescribing! What aren’t all medical, pharmacy and nursing schools doing this?

🚨 ICYMI: UBC TI #Deprescribing series webinar #8

👉Watch the recording here:
ti.ubc.ca/deprescribin...

Case: Deprescribing multiple psychotropic medications
Presenter: Cara Mills, Clinical Pharmacist

#MedEd #CME #antidepressants #mentalhealth

Deprescribing.org - Optimizing Medication Use Deprescribing.org - reducing medications safely to meet life’s changes. Online resources for clinicians and patients to help with deprescribing.

This work is highly complementary to our deprescribing.org #antihyperglycemia #deprescribing resources which can be found here:
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Read about our DIAL study to reduce diabetes overtreatment here!
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Join Zoe Girdis on 4 Mar 1-2pm for our Prescribing Mastery webinar 'Medicines Optimisation through SMR and Deprescribing'

Move from “a pill for every ill” to purposeful, patient-centred prescribing

This #deprescribing series helps reduce #polypharmacy and optimise safety

https://ow.ly/OcFJ50Y8FbH

ICYMI: TI #BestEvidence webinar recording

Using your TI Portrait & mysleepwell.ca for optimal #insomnia management

🎤 Speakers: Dr. Aaron Tejani + Dr. David Gardner
👩🏽‍💻 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC9g...

#PrescribingPortraits #MedEd #deprescribing #BetterPrescribing

It was a great talk indeed! Thanks for having us, @nhp-uoft.bsky.social

Learn more about our DIAL study here:
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Our antihyperglycemic #deprescribing tools can be found here:
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🚨 More UBC TI Educational events are on the way!

SAVE THE DATES + watch our Events and Webinars page for more details: www.ti.ubc.ca/continuing-e...

Registration is now open for our next #Deprescribing webinar:
ti.ubc.ca/deprescribin...

#CME #MedEd #BetterPrescribing

🚨UBC TI #Deprescribing webinar (May 6th)

"Optimizing Medications for Patients with Major Polypharmacy and Multiple Morbidities: Evidence and How to Apply It"

Speaker: Dr. Anne Holbrook

👉 REGISTER NOW: ti.ubc.ca/deprescribin...

#MedEd #CME #polypharmacy #BetterPrescribing

A review of 31 medico-legal cases involving #deprescribing across Canada 🇨🇦 highlights that we still have much to learn on how to improve deprescribing practices in primary care in older adults:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@cmpa-acpm.ca
@springernature.com

Check out our @YouTube channel to view our #MedEd, #BetterPrescribing & #PatientExperience videos 🤩🧑🏾‍💻

👉🏽Watch+Subscribe: youtube.com/@drug_evidence

#BetterHealth #Deprescribing #ResearchMethods

New #CMPAResearch published in BMC Geriatrics: Medico-legal cases involving #FamilyMedicine physicians #deprescribing medications in older adults.

What are the lessons learned?

Thanks for sharing this, @caden-recad.bsky.social !
#MedSky #cdnhealth

🆕 More UBC TI Educational events are on the way!

SAVE THE DATES + watch our Events and Webinars page for more details: www.ti.ubc.ca/continuing-e...

Registration is now open for our next #Deprescribing webinar:
ti.ubc.ca/deprescribin...

#CME #MedEd #BetterPrescribing