What is it about?
Many factors can influence a patient and physician's decision to stop or reduce a medication, such as beliefs, knowledge and attitudes of the physician and the patient. It is crucial to know these factors if we want to develop interventions to support stopping/reducing medications at the end of life. The purpose of this review of the literature was to identify factors that hinder and facilitate reducing or stopping medications in people with a life-limiting disease.
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Why is it important?
We have to keep these factors in mind when developing interventions to support stopping/reducing medications at the end of life, because, if we don't, every intervention is predisponed to fail
Perspectives
The limited collection of findings in the literature highlights the importance of more research in this area
Kristel Paque
UGent & VUB
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This page is a summary of: Barriers and enablers to deprescribing in people with a life-limiting disease: A systematic review, Palliative Medicine, September 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0269216318801124.
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