Long-term institutional care in the United Kingdom is provided by care homes. Residents have prevalent cognitive impairment and disability, have multiple diagnoses, and are subject to polypharmacy. Prevailing models of health care provision (ad hoc, reactive, and coordinated by general practitioners) resul...
AMDA’s Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) initiative put practitioners behind the wheel on medication optimization. During a recent AMDA On-The-Go podcast, guest host Jennifer Pruskowski, PharmD, MS, BCPS, BCGP, CPE, sat down with Michael Steinman, MD, co-director of the U.S. Deprescribing Research Network, to tal...