Deprescribing resources

Effective deprescribing is a team effort. But clinical inertia can often get in the way; this can stem from a lack of shared information, uncertainty, reluctance to change a medicine started by another clinician, or concerns about disrupting established patient–clinician relationships.

Using a structured communication tool between primary care providers is a proven way to overcome these barriers.²

Designed to facilitate clear and actionable collaboration, each medicine-specific communication tool includes:

• the rationale for deprescribing the specific medicine
• room for the referring health professional to add patient-specific recommendations
• room to add a response, to encourage two-way dialogue between the prescriber and referring health professional
• an evidence-based deprescribing algorithm to safely taper the medicine.

Explore the SUPPORT-Meds communication tools below to streamline your collaborative deprescribing efforts:

_{2. Martin P, Tamblyn R, Benedetti A, Ahmed S, Tannenbaum C. Effect of a Pharmacist-Led Educational Intervention on Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions in Older Adults: The D-PRESCRIBE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2018;320(18):1889-98. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2018.16131}