Outcome Measures for Interventions to Reduce Inappropriate Chronic Drugs: A Narrative Review.
Carole Elodie AubertEve A KerrJennifer K MarattMandi L KlamerusTimothy P HoferPublished in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2020)
To ensure initiation, success, and long-term sustainability of deprescribing, it is important to assess the success of intervention studies using clinically relevant patient- and provider-centered measures. This categorized synthesis of outcome measures used in deprescribing studies may facilitate implementation of important measure types (e.g., patient-reported measures and measures of unintended consequences) in future studies. J Am Geriatr Soc 68:2390-2398, 2020.