🆕 #Deprescribing webinar: Antidepressant withdrawal effects & how to safely stop them🛑

✅Maudsley approach to deprescribing #antidepressants
✅Distinguishing withdrawal effects
✅Hyperbolic tapering

Speaker: Mark Horowitz
Register: ti.ubc.ca/deprescribing-…

#medsafety #MedEd

Interested in pharmacoepi, deprescribing and big data?

We're hiring 4 researchers for a research programme RCSI School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences funded by Wellcome to develop methods and generate evidence on the effects of deprescribing.

Links in the next tweet, D/L 22nd Apr, RTs appreciated!

Many ask 'Why do we still order so many unnecessary or harmful tests, procedures, and medications?'

We tried to find out.
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/3/e… BMJ_Open

#overdiagnosis WONCA marc jamoulle PODC Victor Montori, MD 💙 Therapeutics Initiative Margaret McCartney ChoosingWiselyCanada Juan Gérvas

📢Call for abstracts: an opportunity to attend ICOD 2!

CADeN is extending funding to support up to 2 students/trainees' involved in #deprescribing to attend ICOD2 on Sept 26-27 in Nantes, France!
Candidates must be from Canadian Institutions

To apply:
deprescribingnetwork.ca/students#icod2

Happy new year Deprescribers! Don’t forget that the call for abstract closes on 29 February 🙂 Tell us about your work! We’d like to thank Nantes Université & Nantes Métropole for their support as partners, and we are looking for other partners to offer the best conference! 😎

📢If you have used a #deprescribing guideline and/or been involved implementing one or more in practice, please complete this survey! It would really help us gather and then share strategies that are working. Much appreciated!

Very happy to share my new study 'Development and validation of search filters to retrieve medication discontinuation articles in Medline and Embase'.
doi.org/10.1111/hir.12…

Thanks to Jérôme Nguyen, Wade Thompson and Jean-Pascal Fournier for this collaboration !

Tomorrow's the big day!
Follow the happenings of the 2023 National Meeting (Nov. 8-9) and join the discussion with #CADeN2023 and #ReCAD2023 . We'll be sharing updates throughout the event, so stay tuned!

Oh #Deprescribing : one of my professional 'hobbies' as it's so rewarding to see patients thrive.
But, I admit I still have many patients who have polypharmacy and/or inappropriate Rx. This is HARD work for patients and prescribers!!

Join us and add more tools to your toolkit:

🚨Our popular BC Provincial #Deprescribing webinar series returns Nov 8! 💊

Providers, patients, carers, policymakers learn about deprescribing successes+challenges from each other

🖊️Register: ti.ubc.ca/deprescribing-5

#MedEd #prescribing #BetterPrescribing

🧵How should we diagnose & manage adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?

1/ Our UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 144 examines the evidence for pharmacotherapy and non-drug treatments for adult #ADHD
👉🏽ti.ubc.ca/letter144

#MedEd #MedTwitter #diagnosis #prescribing

🚨Our BC Provincial #Deprescribing Series returns Sept 20th! 😍

✅Optimizing therapeutic outcomes
✅Chronic disease management in primary care

Register+info: ti.ubc.ca/deprescribing4

#MedEd #diabetes #MentalHealth #ChronicPain

Happening Sept 20 at 12 PM ET - Join #CWTalks presented by Canadian Medical Association for a discussion on appropriate management of diabetes in LTC w/ Dr. Ralph Jones, Iliana C. Lega and Wade Thompson

choosingwiselycanada.org/event/cwtalks-…

Now out in JAMA Network Open, our look at integration of shared decision-making (SDM) in medication recommendations in CV guidelines over the past decade - jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Blair MacDonald UBC Pharm Sci CORE UBC 1/

🆕 SPECIAL #prescribing WEBINAR 🚨

💊What have we learned about prescribing #analgesics ?

💊How should we treat pain when #opioid overdoses have become an intractable epidemic?

Speaker: Clinical Pharmacologist David Juurlink
Register: ti.ubc.ca/juurlink-analg…

#pain #MedEd

1/n

Deprescribing and medicines optimisation, two sides of the same coin? Considerations for design of interventional studies

New reflective piece by Frank Moriarty, Carmel Hughes, RCSI School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, QUB Pharmacy School, QUB Pharmacy Primary Care Research – study highlights 👇

Do we have a terminology problem in #deprescribing systematic reviews? 🤔

32% of 'deprescribing' trials included in systematic reviews involved interventions where medications were also started!

The brainchild of the inimitable Anne Spinewine 👇

bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bc…

🧵6 reasons to register for our 2023 Bringing #BestEvidence to Clinicians virtual conference:

1/ Like a 🐕with a🦴, we provide a scrupulous examination of #evidence to help you & your pts make more informed #SharedDecisions

👉🏾ti.ubc.ca/drugevidence23

#DrugEvidence23 #MedEd #CME

ICOD lives! Led by the fearless Jeff Huon Thomas Morel Jérôme Nguyen and JP Fournier. Looking forward to 2024! #deprescribing

🆕 #hypertension publication alert!🚨

🔍🧑🏽‍💻Our The Cochrane Library review on first-line #diuretics considers evidence from 20 studies that randomized more than 90,000 people: tiny.cc/diuretics

#CochraneEvidence #SystematicReview #prescribing #HighBloodPressure #HTN #thiazides