Deprescribing medications: Do out-of-pocket costs have a role?

Anna Hung; Caroline E Sloan; Cynthia Boyd; Elizabeth A Bayliss; Susan N Hastings; Matthew L Maciejewski

doi:10.1111/jgs.17974

Deprescribing medications: Do out-of-pocket costs have a role?

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Nov;70(11):3334-3337. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17974. Epub 2022 Aug 2.

Authors

Anna Hung^{1

2

3}, Caroline E Sloan^{2

3

4}, Cynthia Boyd⁵, Elizabeth A Bayliss^{6

7}, Susan N Hastings^{1

2

8

9

10}, Matthew L Maciejewski^{1

2

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation, Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
² Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
³ Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
⁵ Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁶ Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁷ Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁸ Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
⁹ Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
¹⁰ Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Deprescriptions*
Health Expenditures
Humans
Polypharmacy
Surveys and Questionnaires

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding