[A prudent deprescription model]
Joaquín Hortal Carmona1, Iván Aguilar Cruz1, Francisco Parrilla Ruiz1
1Unidad de Urgencias y Hospitalización Polivalente, Hospital de Alta Resolución de Guadix, Guadix, Granada, España.
Abstract:
The therapeutic structure of health systems relies heavily on medical prescription, which generates a marked tendency to add drugs to a patient's medical history. There is an absence of incentives for professionals to reassess prescriptions and withdraw those with a negative or neutral risk/benefit. This can create a deviation of medical resources to the maintenance of useless or even harmful treatments. Deprescribing, a process of thoughtful medication withdrawal that complements moderate prescribing, is aimed to stop this unfair deviation of resources towards non-beneficial, if not maleficent, prescription.
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