Ji Won Lee, Emily Kay Hollingsworth, Avantika Saraf Shah, Sarah L Szanton, Nancy Perrin, Amanda S Mixon, Eduard Eric Vasilevskis, Cynthia M Boyd, Hae-Ra Han, Ariel R Green, Janiece L Taylor, Sandra Faye Simmons
BACKGROUND: Deprescribing is the planned/supervised method of dose reduction or cessation of medications that might be harmful, or no longer be beneficial. Though benefits of deprescribing are debatable in improving clinical outcomes, it has been associated with decreased number of potentially inappropriate medications, which may potentially reduce the risk of adverse events among hospitalized older adults. With unclear evidence for deprescribing in this population, this study aimed to examine time-to-first unplanned healthcare utilization, which included 90-day emergency department (ED) visits or hospital readmission and associated predictors, during a deprescribing intervention...
May 9, 2024: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society