Deprescribing in Patients Living With Dementia With Caregiver and Provider Nudges
The objectives of this study are to demonstrate the feasibility of implementing a deprescribing nudge intervention using pragmatic methods, confirm that outcomes can be feasibly measured and evaluated at scale in a subsequent embedded pragmatic clinical trial (ePCT), and explore representativeness of persons living with dementia and care partners identified.
• Providers within Brigham and Women's Hospital primary care practices
• Having prescribed at least one of the high-risk medications of interest
⁃ Eligible patients will be identified through this providers within the health care system.
• At least 65 years of age
• Prescribed at least 90 pills of one of the high-risk medications of interest in the last 180 days in the EHR system, which most guidelines consider chronic use, and have a diagnosis of dementia in the EHR.