Search results for "Deprescribing"
January 26, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/26/
More medications in advanced life-limiting illness can lower quality of life, increase symptom burden
Polypharmacy may be particularly burdensome near the end of life as patients accumulate medications to treat and prevent multiple diseases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/02/13/4.htm
13 Feb 2019
Stuck in the hospital
Delayed discharges of medically stable patients are a problem that's not going away.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/09/18/stuck-in-the-hospital.htm
18 Sep 2024
February 8, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/08/
PPIs started for stress ulcer prophylaxis in critically ill patients often continued after ICU, hospital discharge
A study at one U.S. academic medical center found that nearly half of patients who started proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) in the ICU without an indication for outpatient use continued them after transfer to the floor, and 27% continued them after discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/12/16/3.htm
16 Dec 2020
May 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/05/
Clinical decision support increased deprescribing but did not affect adverse drug events
A cluster randomized multicenter trial in older inpatients compared the intervention, which included personalized reports to clinicians of deprescribing opportunities, with usual medication reconciliation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/26/clinical-decision-support-increased-deprescribing-but-did-not-impact.htm
26 Jan 2022
Tramadol, gabapentinoids associated with problematic opioid use in hospitalized patients, studies find
One study found that postop tramadol is associated with slightly higher risk of later opioid use versus other short-acting opioids, while another found that gabapentinoids are commonly given off-label in the hospital, sometimes with opioids and benzodiazepines.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/05/22/2.htm
22 May 2019
Medications that can exacerbate heart failure often continued despite heart failure hospitalization
Many heart failure patients were still prescribed albuterol, metformin, or diltiazem at discharge, as well as many other medications on the American Heart Association's list of drugs that can precipitate or induce heart failure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/11/13/3.htm
13 Nov 2019
AHA offers guidance on palliative pharmacotherapy for cardiovascular disease
A scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) calls for use of guideline-directed and evidence-based palliative therapies in end-stage heart failure, pulmonary arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, and other cardiac conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/10/aha-offers-guidance-on-palliative-pharmacotherapy-for-cardiovascular-disease.htm
10 Jul 2024