Understanding cognitive barriers to safer prescribing for frail patients

Deciding to stop medicines that have been prescribed in line with clinical guidelines could be seen as counter-cultural. It goes against the grain for clinicians, and often patients, too. This  Safer Prescribing for Frailty project used an understanding of the cognitive barriers to stopping medicines to enable general practice teams to design, test and embed ways to better meet the medication needs of their frail populations. We took a comprehensive approach to this assessment using ...
Source: Clinical Pharmacist - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research