Louise Gagnon November 21, 2024 Added to Email Alert 170 VANCOUVER, British Columbia — While polypharmacy is inevitable for patients with multiple chronic diseases, not all medications improve patient-oriented outcomes, members of the Patients, Experience, Evidence, Research (PEER) team, a group of Canadian primary care professionals who develop evidence-based guidelines, told attendees at the Family Medicine...
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EHR alerts go unread, do not lead to deprescribing of medicines linked to dementia
by Regenstrief Institute The vast majority of electronic health record (EHR) alerts attempting to reduce the prescribing of high-risk medications linked to dementia in older adults went unread in a study led by Regenstrief Institute Research Scientist Noll Campbell, PharmD, MS published in the June 2021 print issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Credit:...