To prescribe, or to deprescribe? Managing medications in frail patients

Globally, healthcare systems are challenged with providing appropriate care to patients with complex care needs, multiple chronic conditions, and multiple medications. At present, there is a lack of guidelines to inform safe prescribing and deprescribing for frail adults. This presentation will provide an overview of the current evidence related to the benefits and harms of prescribing and deprescribing medications in frail patients and how to capture patient preferences to ensure optimal care.

Associate Professor Danijela Gnjidic

Danijela Gnjidic is an Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Her research expertise is in clinical and geriatric pharmacology, deprescribing, pharmacoepidemiology, and the quality use of medicines.

Dr Rakhee Raghunandan

Rakhee Raghunandan is a health economics research fellow in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on health services research and applied health economics methods to inform decision making.