Episode 9
PPP009 - Deprescribing with Amy Page
Purple Pen Podcast · Purple Pen Podcast
December 10, 201618m 17s
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Show Notes
Jane chats to Amy Page, Consultant Pharmacist and PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia about:
- What "deprescribing" means in practical terms
- The optimal time to consider ceasing a medicine and how deprescribing is like smoking cessation.
- Patient acceptability, pharmacist and doctor willingness and other potential barriers to deprescribing