TY - JOUR AU - Vasilevskis, Eduard E. AU - Shah, Avantika S. AU - Hollingsworth, Emily K. AU - Shotwell, Matthew S. AU - Mixon, Amanda S. AU - Bell, Susan P. AU - Kripalani, Sunil AU - Schnelle, John F. AU - Simmons, Sandra F. AU - Bartoo, Carole AU - Kim, Jennifer AU - Lewallen, Kanah AU - Narramore, Whitney AU - Parker, Robin AU - Lincoln, Susan AU - Gupta, Joanna AU - the Shed-MEDS Team PY - 2019 DA - 2019/03/14 TI - A patient-centered deprescribing intervention for hospitalized older patients with polypharmacy: rationale and design of the Shed-MEDS randomized controlled trial JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 165 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Polypharmacy is prevalent among hospitalized older adults, particularly those being discharged to a post-care care facility (PAC). The aim of this randomized controlled trial is to determine if a patient-centered deprescribing intervention initiated in the hospital and continued in the PAC setting reduces the total number of medications among older patients. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-3995-3 DO - 10.1186/s12913-019-3995-3 ID - Vasilevskis2019 ER -