{"id":9139,"date":"2024-05-25T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/?p=9139"},"modified":"2024-08-16T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T14:10:43","slug":"deprescribing-and-falls-related-ed-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/deprescribing-and-falls-related-ed-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Deprescribing High-risk Drugs After Falls-related ED Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, over 35 million American adults fall. These accidents are associated with more trips to the ED (emergency department) as well as 1-year mortality. Even though there are solid associations between medications and falls among older adults, prescribing fall risk-increasing drugs is still common.<\/p>\n<p>To help bring this issue to light, a newly published paper from the Center for Aging and Health and collaborators focuses on deprescribing of high-risk drugs for older adults they have received ED treatment for falls. The main goal of this research is implementing medication reconciliation for patients after their falls. In addition, the study seeks to determine if an intervention targeting high-risk medications could be related to decreased falls in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Several CAH authors contributed to this research including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/directory\/ellen-roberts-phd-mph\/\">Ellen Roberts PhD, MPH<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/directory\/joshua-niznik-pharmd-phd\/\">Joshua Niznik PhD, PharmD<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/directory\/casey-kelley-mph\/\">Casey Kelley MPH<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/directory\/jan-busby-whitehead\/\">Jan Busby-Whitehead MD<\/a>. Several UNC colleagues also collaborated from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/emergmed\/\">UNC Department of Emergency Medicine<\/a> (Greta Anton PharmD, Brittni B. Teresi BA, and Martin F. Casey MD, MPH) contributed to this paper.<\/p>\n<p>The abstract from this recently published paper was originally presented at the 2023 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting. <a href=\"https:\/\/agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1111\/jgs.18947\">Read the full paper<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1111\/jgs.18947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9142 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2024\/05\/May-2024-JAGS-paper-Initiative-to-deprescribe-high-risk-drugs-for-older-adults-1024x490.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the May 2024 Center for Aging and Health paper in JAGS - Initiative to deprescribe high-risk drugs for older adults\" width=\"1024\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2024\/05\/May-2024-JAGS-paper-Initiative-to-deprescribe-high-risk-drugs-for-older-adults-1024x490.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2024\/05\/May-2024-JAGS-paper-Initiative-to-deprescribe-high-risk-drugs-for-older-adults-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2024\/05\/May-2024-JAGS-paper-Initiative-to-deprescribe-high-risk-drugs-for-older-adults-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2024\/05\/May-2024-JAGS-paper-Initiative-to-deprescribe-high-risk-drugs-for-older-adults-600x287.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2024\/05\/May-2024-JAGS-paper-Initiative-to-deprescribe-high-risk-drugs-for-older-adults.png 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, over 35 million American adults fall. These accidents are associated with more trips to the ED (emergency department) as well as 1-year mortality. Even though there are solid associations between medications and falls among older adults, prescribing fall risk-increasing drugs is still common. To help bring this issue to light, a newly published &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/deprescribing-and-falls-related-ed-visits\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Deprescribing High-risk Drugs After Falls-related ED Visits\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106633,"featured_media":9142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deprescribing High-risk Drugs After Falls-related ED Visits<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This newly published focuses on deprescribing high-risk drugs for older 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