Assessment of Patient-Preferred Language to Achieve Goal-Aligned Deprescribing in Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

How clinicians communicate about deprescribing, the structured process of reducing or stopping unnecessary, potentially harmful, or goal-discordant medicines, may be associated with the extent to which older adults are willing to do it.

Objective

To examine older adults' preferences regarding different rationales a clinician may use to explain why a patient should stop an unnecessary or potentially harmful medication.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional survey study was conducted from March 25 to April 19, 2020, among a nationally representative, probability-based online survey panel (KnowledgePanel). KnowledgePanel members aged 65 years and older were recruited by random digit dialing and address-based sampling. Data were analyzed from M

SUBMITTER: Green AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8022217 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature