The American Medical Association adopted a policy to ensure deprescribing is considered part of routine patient-centered care. “It is important that we recognize deprescribing as an essential, routine component of medication optimization and high-quality clinical care,” AMA Board Member Ilse Levin, DO, said in a Nov. 9 news release shared with Becker’s. “Deprescribing is not simply about taking patients off medications, but about ensuring medications continue to provide more benefit than harm over time.” Here is what to know. 1. The policy defines deprescribing as “the planned, supervised process of… Originally published in Becker’s Hospital Review. Read More
AMA pushes for deprescribing to be part of routine care
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