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| Title |
Deciding when to stop: towards evidence-based deprescribing of drugs in older populations
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, November 2012
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| DOI | 10.1136/eb-2012-100930 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ian A Scott, Leonard C Gray, Jennifer H Martin, Peter I Pillans, Charles A Mitchell |
| Abstract |
Minimising the harm from inappropriate prescribing in older populations is a major urgent concern for modern healthcare systems. In everyday encounters between prescribers and patients, opportunities should be taken to identify patients at high risk of harm from polypharmacy and reappraise their need for specific drugs. Attempts to reconcile life expectancy, comorbidity burden, care goals and patient preferences with the benefits and harms of medications should be made in every patient at significant risk. Drugs identified by this process of reconciliation as conferring little or no benefit and/or excessive risk of harm should be candidates for discontinuation. Evidence supporting a structured approach to drug discontinuation (or deprescribing) is emerging, and while many barriers to deprescribing exist in routine practice, various enabling strategies can help overcome them. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 38 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 14 | 37% |
| Chile | 4 | 11% |
| Canada | 3 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |
| Argentina | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 13 | 34% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 29 | 76% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 16% |
| Scientists | 2 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 221 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 215 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 41 | 19% |
| Researcher | 26 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 26 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 7% |
| Other | 47 | 21% |
| Unknown | 39 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 88 | 40% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 32 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 3% |
| Other | 29 | 13% |
| Unknown | 42 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 March 2015.
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#1,465,430
of 25,732,188 outputs
Outputs from BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
#185
of 1,447 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,165
of 199,354 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
#3
of 29 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,732,188 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,447 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 29 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.