• Internal medicine journal · Jan 2021

    Development and dissemination of the national strategic action plan for reducing inappropriate polypharmacy in older Australians.

    • Lisa Kouladjian O'Donnell, Emily Reeve, Anne Cumming, Ian A Scott, and Sarah N Hilmer.
    • NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
    • Intern Med J. 2021 Jan 1; 51 (1): 111-115.

    AbstractA cohesive, national approach is needed to address inappropriate polypharmacy in older adults and promote deprescribing. We describe the dissemination of the Quality Use of Medicines to Optimise Ageing in Older Australians: Recommendations for a National Strategic Action Plan to Reduce Inappropriate Polypharmacy, and the initiatives taken to date that align with, and assist in operationalising this plan.© 2021 Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

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