Professional roles of general practitioners, community pharmacists and specialist providers in collaborative medication deprescribing - a qualitative study.

Navina Gerlach¹, Matthias Michiels-Corsten², Annika Viniol², Tanja Schleef³, Ulrike Junius-Walker³, Olaf Krause³, Norbert Donner-Banzhoff²

¹Department of General Practice, University of Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Straße 4, D-35043, Marburg, Germany. navina.gerlach@staff.uni-marburg.de.

²Department of General Practice, University of Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Straße 4, D-35043, Marburg, Germany.

³Hannover Medical School, Institute of General Practice, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, D-30625, Hannover, Germany.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Collaborative care approaches between general practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists have received international recognition for medication optimization and deprescribing efforts. Although specialist providers have been shown to influence deprescribing, their profession so far remains omitted from collaborative care approaches for medication optimization. Similarly, while explorative stud…

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