Objectives: Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use among elderly
Chinese patients have not yet been investigated by systematic review and meta-analysis …

Background: Older patients with dementia always need multiple drugs due to comorbidities
and cognitive impairment, further complicating drug treatment and increasing the risk of …

Objective To study the effects of a primary care medication review intervention centred
around an electronic clinical decision support system (eCDSS) on appropriateness of …

People are living longer, and the World Health Organisation predicts that by 2050, 22% of
the world's population will be aged 60 years or older [1]. A common consequence of ageing …

Background Mixed findings about deprescribing impact have emerged from varied study
designs, interventions, outcome measures and targeting sub-categories of medications or …

Frailty is a complex, multidimensional syndrome characterised by a loss of physiological
reserves that increases a person9s susceptibility to adverse health outcomes. Most …

Over half of older adults experience polypharmacy, including medications that may be
inappropriate or unnecessary. Deprescribing, which is the process of discontinuing or …

Background potentially harmful polypharmacy is very common in older people living in aged
care facilities. To date, there have been no double-blind randomised controlled studies of …

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Introduction older adults are at risk of adverse outcomes due to a high prevalence of
polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs). Deprescribing interventions …