• Marta Mejías-Trueba, Aitana Rodríguez-Perez, Bosco Barón-Franco, Carlos Hernández-Quiles, Bernardo Santos-Ramos, and Susana Sánchez-Fidalgo.
• Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Farmacia, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, España.
• Med Clin (Barc). 2022 Dec 23; 159 (12): 584588584-588.

Background And ObjectiveIn 2017, a questionnaire was developed in Italian with the aim of determining clinicians' perceptions of deprescription in the elderly population. The objective was to translate and cross-culturally adapt this deprescription questionnaire to Spanish.MethodsForward and blind-back translations, followed by a synthesis and adaptation by a third translator. Development of an expert panel to evaluate the adequacy of the translation, the understandability of the translated question and the usefulness of each question. A comprehensibility analysis was carried out on physicians familiar with deprescription.ResultsThe Spanish version of the questionnaire was obtained, where the average degree of difficulty in the direct and the back-translation was low/moderate. In the first phase of the panel of experts, 4 questions had sections considered "indeterminate" and one question was "doubtful". After the second phase, all the questions were considered "adequate" except for one.ConclusionsThis is the first cross-cultural adaptation to Spanish of this questionnaire, which will provide a tool to assess clinicians' perception of this practice and establish improvements to carry out this activity.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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